CinnamonDonkey wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know how I can programatically find out which process
(resolved to human friendly string, i.e. executable) has a lock on a
file.
I have a script running which occassionally fails because it is trying
to delete a file in use by another process. When this happens I want
it to log which process has the lock.
Since it tends to happen when I am never near the computer to catch
it! :(
Cheers,
Shaun
This may depend on what version of Windows you're using, as the API's
changed in Windows 2000, and again in XP SP2, and probably again in Vista.
I don't know an API for what you want, but filemon, from
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896642.aspx
can build a log of file activity, which you can examine later.
If you do find an API that works on XP and better, please let us know.
Even if you only know a function name, I'd be willing to play with it
some, to see what it might do. I'd like to find out, and would share
what I did figure out.
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