On Jul 9, 3:21 pm, Tim Golden <m...@timgolden.me.uk> wrote: > Rajat wrote: > > The Notepad process information is fine here. However, with wordpad > > the results are not much differentiating: > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > wordpad.exe pid: 2832 COMP\rajatd > > 1C: File (RW-) C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common- > > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83 > > 40: File (RW-) C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common- > > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83 > > 74: Section \BaseNamedObjects\ShimSharedMemory > > F8: Section \BaseNamedObjects > > \CiceroSharedMemDefaultS-1-5-21-57989841-1580818891-839522115-1653 > > 170: Section \BaseNamedObjects\RotHintTable > > 184: File (RW-) C:\Documents and Settings\rajatd\My Documents > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > wordpad.exe pid: 844 COMP\rajatd > > 1C: File (RW-) C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common- > > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83 > > 40: File (RW-) C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.Windows.Common- > > Controls_6595b64144ccf1df_6.0.2600.5512_x-ww_35d4ce83 > > 74: Section \BaseNamedObjects\ShimSharedMemory > > F8: Section \BaseNamedObjects > > \CiceroSharedMemDefaultS-1-5-21-57989841-1580818891-839522115-1653 > > 170: Section \BaseNamedObjects\RotHintTable > > 184: File (RW-) C:\Documents and Settings\rajatd\My Documents > > > Both the wordpad applications opened 2 totally different files kept at > > different locations on the system. > > > So, on the basis of above results one can not say out of these 2 > > wordpad apps which is the right one that could be closed. The only > > different thing among the two is the PIDs. > > Rajat: are you trying to find out which app is holding a file open? > > If so -- run handle.exe *for that filename*, as my code does: > > handle.exe <filename> > > This will only show which apps are holding that file. I suspect > you're running handle.exe on its own which will show everything > which is holding handles on anything. > > 1) Use wordpad.exe to open c:\temp\blah.txt > > 2) Run "handle.exe c:\temp\blah.txt" > > 3) Observe (at least on my Win XP Sp3 machine) that *no* process > has a handle open on c:\temp\blah.txt, including wordpad, which > presumably opens the file, reads it, and closes it again. > > The items you're seeing above are system-level handles which > wordpad is holding for reasons of its own, but none of them > is a user filename. > > TJG- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text -
Thanks Tim for the details. Just further on this, my whole idea is to close the wordpad / notepad application so that I can delete the file and the directory where this file resides. With notepad it is no more a problem. But I'm concerned about the wordpad now. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
