Identify Device usage

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Fr, den 30.07.2004 schrieb Parameshwara Bhat um 17:18:

> How to find out which program/service is using a device? There must surely 
> be a command ?
> 
> Parameshwara Bhat

lsof /dev/$device

You for instance get with it:

$ lsof /dev/video0
COMMAND  PID    USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE  NODE NAME
xawtv   8844 adalloz    4u   CHR   81,0      31206 /dev/video0

Alexander


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