From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>
Cc: Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting process death for anycast named process monitoring
Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 02:40:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070503024048.e7192b3b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4638FCEA.4010806@gdt.id.au>
On Thu, 03 May 2007 06:34:42 +0930 Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au> wrote:
> The question is, how can a process with no relationship to another
> process detect that process unexpectedly dying?
Monitor the system using the taskstats interface. There is a sample
application and documentation in Documentation/accounting/.
Your monitoring application will receive a netlink packet each time a process
exits. It includes the exit code and the process's name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-03 9:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-02 21:04 Detecting process death for anycast named process monitoring Glen Turner
2007-05-02 22:30 ` Chris Friesen
2007-05-02 23:12 ` David M. Lloyd
2007-05-04 5:54 ` Russell King
2007-05-03 8:01 ` Russell King
2007-05-03 8:55 ` Glen Turner
2007-05-03 9:40 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-05-03 10:17 ` Glen Turner
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