From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764239AbXGaPun (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:50:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755154AbXGaPud (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:50:33 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.174]:2381 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754726AbXGaPuc (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:50:32 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=TXiXqMa2h55vV5nK/LbMTGP6OCYJmFQeHJSDE46F2afIo4KH2cpcHpOMKvUrgSE78DJaWikaSAdZ2BrS4Zr2HrYKf//lxCuzfT122o48IpIlUC3rWYaUzSN4EhRZSdwnzFNH7WagT6TuV5yxw8BnjRAeOBd+M+xz4vy8G4hrK1g= Message-ID: <2c0942db0707310850n5b30987di5fe9c9c91eb525d6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:50:31 -0700 From: "Ray Lee" To: trelane@digitasaru.net, "Al Viro" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inotify and /proc/ In-Reply-To: <20070731032521.GD6812@digitasaru.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070731021615.GB6812@digitasaru.net> <20070731031720.GF21089@ftp.linux.org.uk> <20070731032521.GD6812@digitasaru.net> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 161aecf9669600f8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/30/07, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > What's the way to check for a process exiting without spinning? I think you can get it from the taskstats interface, though I haven't tried it. See Documentation/accounting/ for details. Ray