From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940548AbXGaCxT (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:53:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759448AbXGaCxF (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:53:05 -0400 Received: from kludge.physics.uiowa.edu ([128.255.33.129]:54554 "EHLO kludge.physics.uiowa.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750843AbXGaCxD (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:53:03 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 2177 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:53:03 EDT Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:16:16 -0500 From: Joseph Pingenot To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20070731021615.GB6812@digitasaru.net> Reply-To: trelane@digitasaru.net Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-School: University of Iowa X-vi-or-emacs: vi *and* emacs! X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: X-MimeOLE: Not Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15+20070412 (2007-04-11) Subject: inotify and /proc/ X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2.1 (built Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:30:04 +0000) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I was trying to use inotify to watch process changes (especially process termination) by watching /proc/. 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 -- trelane@digitasaru.net./////////////////////////////////////////////// "There is also an entire branch in the physical therapy field dedicated to the treatment of little-finger injuries caused by excessive Emacs use." --Linux Weekly News editor (http://lwn.net/Articles/206916/) ///////260 IATL / The University of Iowa / Iowa City, IA 52242///////