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From: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: trelane@digitasaru.net
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: inotify and /proc/<pid>
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:48:56 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AECD48.1010701@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070731034059.GF6812@digitasaru.net>

Joseph Pingenot wrote:

> While we're on the subject, is there some way to receive notification
>   that some aspect of a process changes (in this case, stopping using
>   CPU, but not exiting).

For some internal stuff a while back I did a patch that allows any 
process to register for status change notifications.  Basically, the 
registered process gets put on a list and gets the same notifications 
(killed/stopped/exited, etc.) as the real parent.

Useful for this type of thing.

Chris

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-07-31  5:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-31  2:16 inotify and /proc/<pid> Joseph Pingenot
2007-07-31  3:17 ` Al Viro
2007-07-31  3:25   ` Joseph Pingenot
2007-07-31  3:31     ` Joseph Pingenot
2007-07-31  3:36       ` Al Viro
2007-07-31  3:40         ` Joseph Pingenot
2007-07-31  3:48           ` Kyle McMartin
2007-07-31  3:50           ` Al Viro
2007-07-31  3:56             ` Joseph Pingenot
2007-07-31  4:01               ` Al Viro
2007-08-01  1:33               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-07-31  5:48           ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2007-07-31  3:31     ` Al Viro
2007-07-31 15:50     ` Ray Lee
2007-07-31 18:31     ` Diego Calleja
2007-08-01  0:41       ` Andrew Morton

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