Frequent Question: How Can I Tell If a File Is in Use Linux?
Contents How Do You Check If a File Is in Use or Not? the Common Managed Way to Check Whether a File Is in Use Is to Open the File in a Try Block. If the File...
How do you check if a file is in use or not?
The common managed way to check whether a file is in use is to open the file in a try block. If the file is in use, it will throw an IOException. Another way to check whether a file is in use is to call the CreateFile API. If a file is in use, the handle return is invalid.
How can you tell if a file is open in Unix?
1 Answer. You should use the fstat command, you can run it as user : The fstat utility identifies open files. A file is considered open by a process if it was explicitly opened, is the working directory, root directory, jail root directory, active executable text, or kernel trace file for that process.
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