Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:30:41 -0400 | Subject | Re: + prctl-add-pr_setget_child_reaper-to-allow-simple-process-supervision .patch added to -mm tree | From | Colin Walters <> |
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 9:37 AM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> 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...
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