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From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC]  new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die
Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 20:53:09 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030511205309.A25546@google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3EBF144E.7050608@nortelnetworks.com>; from cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com on Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400

On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
> 
> Its cheaper and faster.  It only costs a single call for each process, and
> then you get notified immediately when it dies.

On Solaris, pwait(1) opens /proc/pid/psinfo and waits for data.

/fc

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-12  3:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-10  6:29 [RFC] new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die Chris Friesen
2003-05-10  7:38 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2003-05-12  3:26   ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-12  3:32     ` Doug McNaught
2003-05-12  3:42       ` Posible memory leak!? Boris Kurktchiev
2003-05-12 11:17         ` Boris Kurktchiev
     [not found]           ` <200305131158.h4DBw2u30860@Port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
2003-05-13 18:17             ` Boris Kurktchiev
2003-05-12 18:06         ` Greg KH
2003-05-12  4:33       ` [RFC] new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die Chris Friesen
2003-05-12 13:23         ` Doug McNaught
2003-05-12 14:07           ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-12  3:53     ` Frank Cusack [this message]

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