inotify and /proc/<pid>

From: Joseph Pingenot
Date: Mon Jul 30 2007 - 22:53:22 EST


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?

-Joseph
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