Re: [RFC] new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die

From: Frank Cusack (fcusack@fcusack.com)
Date: Sun May 11 2003 - 22:53:09 EST

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On Sun, May 11, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400, Chris Friesen wrote:
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> Its cheaper and faster. It only costs a single call for each process, and
> then you get notified immediately when it dies.

On Solaris, pwait(1) opens /proc/pid/psinfo and waits for data.

/fc
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