To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org>,
       Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC]  new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die
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From: Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org>
Date: 11 May 2003 23:32:29 -0400
In-Reply-To: Chris Friesen's message of "Sun, 11 May 2003 23:26:06 -0400"
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Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com> writes:

> > There's already a well established way to do what you want (get
> > non-immediate notification of process death). What benefit would your
> > approach give?
> 
> Its cheaper and faster.  It only costs a single call for each process,
> and then you get notified immediately when it dies.

Rather than a new syscall, what about a magic file or device that you
can poll()? 

-Doug
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