Re: [RFC PATCH v2] waitfd

Alan Cox
2009-01-06T18:28:19Z

> waitfd provides a file descriptor out of which may be read a series of
> siginfo_t objects describing child death. A child process is reaped as
> soon as its information is read. This means child monitoring too can be
> performed with that same poll call.
>
> Patch is against v2.6.28

Same comment as last time - the right way to do this is to extend the
existing notify APIs to the /proc file system