Re: Detecting process death for anycast named process monitoring

David M. Lloyd
2007-05-04T01:59:22Z

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