Re: Pollable Semaphores

[Chris Wright]

* Ulrich Drepper (drepper@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> And is another thing to consider.  There is at least one other event
> which should be pollable: process (maybe threads) deaths.  I was
> hoping that we get support for this, perhaps in the form of polling
> the /proc/PID directory.  For poll(), a POLLERR value could mean the
> process/thread died.  For select(), once again a  bit in the except
> array could be set.

I have a simple patch that does just that.  It worked after brief testing,
then I never went back to look at it any more.  I'll see if I can't dig
it up, maybe it's useful.

thanks,
-chris
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