On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:25:21PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007: > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 09:16:16PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >> I was trying to use inotify to watch process changes (especially process > >> termination) by watching /proc/<pid>. > >> Sadly, although I could see something reading various files, nothing > >> was issued when the process I was watching exited and the directory > >> went away. > >> Is this intentional, or a bug? > >It's a bug you intend to introduce in your program... IOW, don't > >do that. > > More background, please? > > What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning?
Depends on what that process is and how it is related to watching one... - 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/
