How determine if a file is opened by another process

[Mathias Koerber]

Cheers,

I want to find out, whether any process has opened a file, of which I only
have the filename (or the inode, and the fs). The process that might have
opened it need not be related to mine. I want to find out whether I can
delete the file, without creating a still existing, unref'd file, which might
grow without me knowing which file it is. I looked through inode.h and ino.h,
but found no pointer to this.

Could anyone pls give me a hint ?. Maybe it's in a table in the kernel ?

thx, Mathias
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