On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 14:45 +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > when you mail to lkml you should be prepared to explain what does does > what ptrace doesn't give you.... > Okay. ptrace provides a solution by which the parent control its children. I need a solution where a process is aware of an occurring fork in the kernel and not only for its children. Thus the difference here is the relay fork provides a means by which a process (in my case a daemon) may observe all "forks". I hope that this answer to the question Thank you Arjan for your comment, I will add this remark in the README file Cheers, Guillaume -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/