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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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fuser — Identify Processes Using a File or File Structure

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/fuser [- [c | f] ku] files [[- [c | f] ku] files]...

Description

Use the fuser command to display the IDs of the processes that are using the files specified as arguments.

Each process ID is followed by a letter code. These letter codes are interpreted as follows: if the process is using the file as

c The process is using the file as its current directory.
m The process is using a file mapped with mmap(2). See mmap(2) for details.
o The process is using the file as an open file.
r The process is using the file as its root directory.
t The process is using the file as its text file.
y The process is using the file as its controlling terminal.

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