The OpenEdge lock file, <dbname>.lk, amongst other information contains the process id of the process running the OpenEdge database.
To find the process id, take a copy of the database .lk file and open it with a binary/hex file editor.
- Ignore the first 4 bytes of the file.
- The process id is stored inside the next four bytes: at HEX offset 04-07
Example: A Unix .lk file
$ od -x dbname.lk
0000000 0000 0002 01e1 019c 5149 5141 3835 0000
0000020 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
...
The PID of the owning process = 31523228
Example: A Windows .lk file
On a windows machine, to convert these hex bytes to decimal first swap the bytes and then convert the resulting hex number to decimal.
00000000h: 02 00 00 00 90 22 00 00 46 2D 35 38 41 51 49 51
00000010h: 46 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
...
The PID is: 90 22 00 00 (hex)
Swap the bytes: 00 00 22 90
The PID of the owning process = 8848 = (0 * 16^0) + (9 * 16^1) + (2 * 16^2) + (2 * 16^3)
