Userspace agent crash and kernel module

[Pranay Srivastava]

Hi Kevin




On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to write a kernel module which interacts with a userspace daemon.
> There are cases when the userspace daemon can terminate by some signals.
> There are also cases where the userspace daemon can crash (in some abnormal
> cases). Is there a way that the kernel module will be aware of such
> userspace agent crash, in order to reset its state ?

Can't you reset it when the daemon is about to be killed from the
userspace itself? Depends on how complex/simple you want
this but there are several possibilities. Care to tell me how you
thought about doing this and where you got stuck?


>
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
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