Hello,

I am trying to find a way for testing if a file is still open and being written to by another process. Only process file when it is closed and completely done being written to. Is this possible using just kornshell?
Any insight is much appreciated.

Regards,
Patrick

Take a look at the fuser command

does AIX implement /proc?

Thanks i was facing the same problem, i was putting some information in a file via a background process and was doing a cat to see the contents.

It gave me the pid of background process followed by stop.
Understood only half, stopped because it was writing on it and therefore i won't be able to cat. But what does stop mean and how can i resume it.

Further fuser showed me that process was writing in the file by the suffix "o", but on running it a few times i got the same result.
My background process stopped.
I wanted to check via fuser whether that file is being used in a script and then do some processing from it.

Please help

Vibhor Kumar Agarwal