what program accesses a file?

[William Park]

On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:14:29AM -0400, Anthony Tekatch wrote:
> Is there a utility that can report on what is accessing a file like
> /dev/ttyS0 ?
> 
> Recently that serial port has become unusable because something is
> transmitting as seen by:
>   cat /proc/tty/driver 
> 
> Also carefully watching file info using "mc" the Modify time is being
> changed but the Access time is remaining the same.
> 
> I cannot figure out what process is using that port.

man fuser

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