Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die | From | Doug McNaught <> | Date | 11 May 2003 23:32:29 -0400 |
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Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> writes:
> > There's already a well established way to do what you want (get > > non-immediate notification of process death). What benefit would your > > approach give? > > Its cheaper and faster. It only costs a single call for each process, > and then you get notified immediately when it dies.
Rather than a new syscall, what about a magic file or device that you can poll()?
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