On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:56:27PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >From Al Viro on Tuesday, 31 July, 2007: > >On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 10:40:59PM -0500, Joseph Pingenot wrote: > >> I'm trying to implement pwait. It blocks until a specified PID exits, > >> and then it exits. > >er... ptrace(2)? > > Should work for most common usage scenarios, although will suspect that it > won't for for processes owned by another user (at least, I hope > it wouldn't). > > What is dangerous about inotify on a proc file?
Playing with the lifetime rules, for starters... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
