How to find whether a file is already open or not by any application .

[yogi0512]

Hi,

I trying to delete a folder containing some files.
Before deleting i want to check whether any file in the folder is already open by any other application.
I cannot use "lsof" command.
Is there any function or api which will help me in this?

Thanks,
Yogish

[wje_lf]

I cannot use "lsof" command.

Before we suggest anything else, we need to know why "lsof" doesn't work for you. It could be that anything else we suggest will fail for the same reason.