Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 2009 18:27:59 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH v2] waitfd |
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> 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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