Re: [Patch][RFC] fcntl: add ability to stop monitored processes

From: Alan Cox
Date: Mon Jun 13 2005 - 08:47:00 EST


On Sul, 2005-06-12 at 19:10, Neil Horman wrote:
> How about this? Its the same feature, with an added check in fcntl_dirnotify to
> ensure that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN set can tell processes preforming

Once you are monitoring and sending signals I think its time to ask if
the interface is in totally the wrong place. Would it not be better if
it was part of the ptrace interface to the monitored process ?

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