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From: "David M. Lloyd" <dmlloyd@flurg.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: Glen Turner <gdt@gdt.id.au>, Linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Detecting process death for anycast named process monitoring
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 18:12:27 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1178147547.26507.96.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4639111A.70202@nortel.com>

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> > The question is, how can a process with no relationship to another
> > process detect that process unexpectedly dying?  If named goes
> > away to a better place, we want to shut down the interface
> > which causes Quagga to inject the anycast route.

> We did something similar where arbitrary processes can register to be 
> sent an arbitrary signal when the state of other processes change.

What about something like inotify, but for processes?  That would be
cool...

- DML


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-04  1:59 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 [this message]
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
2007-05-03 10:17   ` Glen Turner

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