user in update and locks up a report being run

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On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 11:50:08AM -0500, Kenneth Brody may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> 
> The "showlock" utility I wrote will show the file offset and PID of the lock 
> owner.  I believe it was Bob Stockler who wrote a "lock.info" wrapper which 
> would then show the record number and username as well.  I believe that both 
> have been included with filePro for some time now.

The owner of the PID itself is useless in linux, as it's always filepro due
to the way SUID is handled.  You have to walk PPIDs up the tree to find the
real originating process's (like a shell's, cron job's, or httpd's) owner.

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