On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Usman S. Ansari wrote: > Is there a way (without modifying kernel sources) in 2.4 and/or 2.6 to > be notified when process exit ? > > I found "profile_event_register", but on registering, I get 38 > (function not implemented). > > Usman Hi, if you want to be notified when a process exits when in kernel space, you could intercept the exit system call; as i recall, you should use __NR_exit_group instead of __NR_exit (declared in asm/unistd.h); if you are using kernel 2.6 you have to modify the sources, as the kernel no longer exports sys_call_table. i'm not sure, however, if you want to be notified when in kernel space or in user space; if in kernel space, what i said above should work. Razvan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
