Finding out when a process has died

[rohan puri]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:57 AM, MK <stardust496 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I want to write a process (hopefully userspace) which will "watch"
> other processes and do something when a process dies. What is a good
> way to do this? A simple solution would be to have a stream/tcp
> connection between the watcher and other processes and when the
> connection is broken, you know the other side has died. Is there a
> better way to do this possibly involving a kernel mod?
>
> Thanks!!
>
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Hi,

I think you can make use of user-defined signal handlers.

Regards,
Rohan Puri
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