Re: Obtaining process id

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 18:21

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"Chris ( Val )" <chrisval@bigpond.com.au> wrote in message
news:40619ba9@newsgroups.borland.com...

> My ultimate goal is to find out which application
> is locking a particular file, and log the process id
> and the offending application(exe) name into the
> database for further analysis.

What you ask for is not provided by the Win32 API at all.  You have to drop
down to a lower level and query the kernel directly, which is not a simple
task.  What you ask for is possible in genernal, though, as demonstrated by
the "Process Explorer" and "Handle" utilities at http://www.sysinternals.com


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