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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:41:20 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 20:31:49 +0200 Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> wrote:

> El Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:25:21 -0500, Joseph Pingenot <trelane@digitasaru.net> escribió:
> 
> > More background, please?
> > 
> > What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning?
> 
> 
> I don't know if it's useful for you, but CONFIG_CONNECTOR and CONFIG_PROC_EVENTS
> will report process creation/exit/fork/etc through a netlink interface.

yup.  See example code in Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c