Re: (Winows) Finding out which process has locked a file.
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. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: (Winows) Finding out which process has locked a file.
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! :( Usual place to look for these things is sysinternals (now part of Microsoft). In particular, the handle util: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896655.aspx To get the same programatically you have to delve quite deep into the NT low-level API. Not tried it myself. TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: (Winows) Finding out which process has locked a file.
On 5/13/2009 2:20 AM CinnamonDonkey said... 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. You might take a look at http://ccollomb.free.fr/unlocker/ -- I've not used the command line options although they are available... Emile -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
(Winows) Finding out which process has locked a file.
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 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
