user in update and locks up a report being run

[Kenneth Brody]

On 12/23/2010 11:59 AM, Fairlight wrote:
> 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

Not "owner of the PID" but "PID of the lock owner".

> 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.

-- 
Kenneth Brody