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how to determine if device is busy
Name: f Date: July 29, 2003 at 10:48:52 Pacific OS: Linux CPU/Ram: Athlon/512
Comment:
I am currently writing a bash script (this is my second day into bash scripting) and I have problem figuring out how to determine if /dev/ttyX is busy. So far I have only one idea, to simply use cat which says smth like 'Device busy' if it's busy. But I don' t think it is the best way to do it. Any ideas?
David, no, who will not help, because in this case tty is a special device(Digi adapter port) wich will not show up in "who". So far I have figured out to use "lsof | grep "/dev/tty_name" in if statement test.
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Response Number 3
Name: David Perry Date: July 31, 2003 at 05:56:24 Pacific
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