Re: File descriptor 9 and VLC.

[Richard Hector <richard@catalyst.net.nz>]

Replying from archive since I'd deleted the original ...

> peter@dalton:~$ lsof /home/peter/*.WAV
> COMMAND   PID  USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF    NODE NAME
> vlc     10888 peter    9u   REG    8,6    20470 3612711 
/home/peter/M1357873276.WAV
>
> man lsof explains,
> "The mode character is followed by one of these lock  charac-
>   ters, describing the type of lock applied to the file:
>   ...
>   u for a read and write lock of any length;"

I think you've skipped too far ahead in the man page.

"FD is followed by one of these characters, describing the mode under 
which the file is open:
r for read access;
w for write access;
u for read and write access;
space if mode unknown and no lock
     character follows;
`-' if mode unknown and lock
     character follows.

So u in this case is read/write access, and there's no lock character.

Richard