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Date: 2010mar7
OS: Linux

Q.  How can I see what files a process has open?

A.  Here are two commands that do that:

	ls -l /proc/<pid>/fd

	lsof -p <pid>

where <pid> is the unique process id.
Many processes will have special files stdin, stdout and stderr open.
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