lsof Seeks All Open Files Apr 8, 2009, 03 :04 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (4239 reads) (Other stories by Juliet Kemp)
"Last week's tip looked at fuser, which shows which process is accessing a given file. lsof is another tool for locating open files. What makes this especially useful is that in Linux, everything is treated as a file: pipes, directories, devices, inodes, sockets and so on."