Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:06:37 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: uberlord@gentoo.org, ssedov@mbsd.msk.ru, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: sysutils/fuser Message-ID: <200609121106.k8CB6bwD088486@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200609112129.40199.uberlord@gentoo.org>
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Roy Marples wrote:
> Stanislav Sedov wrote:
> > But they wants the value 0 to be returned in case of no errors, and
> > since there are no errors in case of no files opened on mountpoint,
> > returning non-zero could break some apps that relies on POSIX
> > functionality.
> >
> > IIRC, solaris resembles the same behavior.
>
> OK, you win - I'll parse the output :)
There's no need to parse it. If you only want to know if
_any_ process is accessing a file at all, it's sufficient
to check if stdout from fuser is non-empty. In shell-
script syntax:
if [ -n "`fuser -f whatever 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
echo "File is being accessed."
fi
Best regards
Oliver
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