Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 09 Dec 2008 13:46:59 -0500 | | From | Casey Dahlin <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] waitfd: file descriptor to wait on child processes |
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Alan Cox wrote: >> prototype for a fourth: waitfd. It pretty much does what the name >> suggests: reading from it yields a series of status ints (as would be >> written into the second argument of waitpid) for child processes that >> have changed state. It takes essentially the same arguments as waitpid >> (for now) and supports the same set of features. >> > > This propogates the fundamental braindamage of waitpid - the fact the > notification only works on child process trees. > > Here is a more elegant suggestion - use epoll, inotify and friends fully > on /proc process nodes. > > Alan > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > Last I checked inotify was not supported in /proc, or at least most of it. What kind of work load is it to change that?
--CJD
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