[ale] named pipe question

[Bob Toxen]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 03:02:47PM -0500, Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, David Hamm wrote:

> > I can't remember how to find the binary associated with a named
> > pipe(made with mkfifo).  Could someone give me a clue?

> would fuser do the trick?

     find / -type p -ls

Note the pathname.  We'll call it /tmp/foo today.

     /bin/ls -l /proc/[0-9]*/fd/* | grep tmp/foo

> 	bjorn

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