Giuseppe Scrivano wrote: > Jim Meyering <[email protected]> writes: > >> Actually, there may be a nice way to allow --pid=PID to >> integrate seamlessly with inotify support. >> >> I think you can add an IN_DELETE_SELF inotify watch on the "/proc/PID" >> directory. I suspect that every system with inotify support also >> has usable /proc/PID directories. The only requirement seems to be >> that the desired directory be readable. > > I tried to watch /proc/$PID using inotify-tools and a few lines program > that I wrote ad-hoc and it seems I can't monitor /proc correctly. > I didn't receive IN_DELETE_SELF or any other message when the $PID > process was killed. > > It seems I can't use inotify in this direct way to monitor processes > status.
Rats. After you mentioned that, I tried inotifywatch /proc/$pid and inotifywatch /proc/$pid/mem and confirmed your finding. They don't work. Then I read on lkml that it appears the linux kernel deliberately does not enable inotify for /proc. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
