>From Joseph Pingenot on Monday, 30 July, 2007: >From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007: >>On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:16:16PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: >>> I was trying to use inotify to watch process changes (especially process >>> termination) by watching /proc/<pid>. >>> Sadly, although I could see something reading various files, nothing >>> was issued when the process I was watching exited and the directory >>> went away. >>> Is this intentional, or a bug? >>It's a bug you intend to introduce in your program... IOW, don't >>do that. >More background, please? >What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning?
I should also specify that the process being waited on is not a child process-it's just some other process on the system. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]/////////////////////////////////////////////// "There is also an entire branch in the physical therapy field dedicated to the treatment of little-finger injuries caused by excessive Emacs use." --Linux Weekly News editor (http://lwn.net/Articles/206916/) ///////260 IATL / The University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA 52242/////// - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
