Detecting whether a file is locked by another process (or indeed the same process)
11734
How to check for file lock?
32408
How can I identify what application is using a given file?
34473
Determining if a file is a hard link or symbolic link?
68020
How do I check if a given string is a legal/valid file name under Windows?
37032
Is there a bulletproof way to know a file has been successfully decrypted?
49472
Testing if a file/directory is read only
92335
Check if a file is executable
158918
Check if a file was included or loaded
3358
What's the best way to check if a file exists in C?
81184
Delete a file being used by another process
143252
How can I determine if a Win32 thread has terminated?
5470
Is it possible to find out what program or script created a given file?
128012
Linux IO monitoring per file?
126695
How to copy a file while it is being used by another process
112985
How to monitor process/program execution in windows?
97526
How to confirm that a file has copied to a new disk without any errors?
151141
Find which process is modifying a file