what program accesses a file?

[Tim Writer]

William Park <opengeometry-FFYn/CNdgSA at public.gmane.org> writes:

> 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

Or try lsof.

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