Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?
Excellent. That's very helpful as well. Michael On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Nick Rout wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:48:19 -0800 (PST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was it. Thanks! M you could also try strace -eopen programname It will give a pretty verbose account of what files are opened by programname. (and of course devices, like everything else, are files) On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, John Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone is using it by: ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 Is there a utility or other better way I can discover which process, or better, which program, is using a particular device? Thanks, Michael try lsof -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?
On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone is using it by: ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 Is there a utility or other better way I can discover which process, or better, which program, is using a particular device? Thanks, Michael try lsof pgp77FskRrYfa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to find if a program is using a particular /dev device?
That was it. Thanks! M On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, John Myers wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2005 23:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a custom device driver in /dev/ that can only be used by one program at a time. Since the device is /dev/ttyUSB0, I can see if anyone is using it by: ls -l /proc/*/fd/* | grep ttyUSB0 Is there a utility or other better way I can discover which process, or better, which program, is using a particular device? Thanks, Michael try lsof -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
