On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Now I can see why you want to know when processes exit and do it without > tampering with the process, but it seems to me that's simply a question > of us lacking a way to do this nicely, whether inotify/dnotify/etc > on /proc, some kind of 'also signal me' property or some kind of process > event interface. Yes please! The fact that in Unix one can only get notifications of a process exiting when one is the parent is just lame, and SIGCHLD (like all signals) sucks. Lennart was tossing around a "childfd" namespace proposal... -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
