Re: inotify and /proc/<pid>

[Chris Friesen]

Joseph Pingenot wrote:

> While we're on the subject, is there some way to receive notification
>   that some aspect of a process changes (in this case, stopping using
>   CPU, but not exiting).

For some internal stuff a while back I did a patch that allows any 
process to register for status change notifications.  Basically, the 
registered process gets put on a list and gets the same notifications 
(killed/stopped/exited, etc.) as the real parent.

Useful for this type of thing.

Chris
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