Re: [RFC] new syscall to allow notification when arbitrary pids die

[Doug McNaught]

Chris Friesen <[e-mail]> 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