Gauvain Pocentek a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have to monitor applications on a system (users who run the application, how
> long, etc.), but I'm having troubles with applications which fork during startup
> (openoffice for instance).
>
> Here is a snippet of what I planned to use (checks omitted to simplify):
>
> ####################################
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <sys/wait.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
>
> int main()
> {
> int status;
> pid_t p = fork();
> if (p == 0)
> system ("soffice");
> else if (p > 0)
> {
> waitpid (p, &status, 0);
> printf ("done\n");
> }
>
> return 0;
> }
>
> ####################################
>
> Is there a way to make wait() or an other syscall monitor the process' children,
> or is patching openoffice (and other apps behaving in the same way) the only
> solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Gauvain Pocentek
Would not be simpler to use Unix's pacct feature ?
It may not be enabled, though, on some linux distro.
- ben
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