Re: inotify and /proc/<pid>

[Joseph Pingenot]

>From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007:
>On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:40:59PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement pwait.  It blocks until a specified PID exits,
>>   and then it exits.
>er... ptrace(2)?

Should work for most common usage scenarios, although will suspect that it
  won't for for processes owned by another user (at least, I hope
  it wouldn't).

What is dangerous about inotify on a proc file?

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