Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:27:59 +0000 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2] waitfd | |
> waitfd provides a file descriptor out of which may be read a series of
> siginfo_t objects describing child death. A child process is reaped as
> soon as its information is read. This means child monitoring too can be
> performed with that same poll call.
>
> Patch is against v2.6.28
Same comment as last time - the right way to do this is to extend the
existing notify APIs to the /proc file system
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