On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 06:12:27PM -0500, David M. Lloyd wrote: > 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...
Or maybe just ignoring the SIGHUP before exec'ing the named process as a child. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
