On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:40:59PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007: > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:31:13PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >> >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. > >Umm... Any details on intended use? IOW, is that "I want to write > >an utility that would wait for given PID to exit, just for the hell > >of it" or is there something you are trying to implement using that? > > I'm trying to implement pwait. It blocks until a specified PID exits, > and then it exits. >
ptrace with options set to PTRACE_O_TRACEEXIT? --Kyle - 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/
