Re: Detecting process death for anycast named process monitoring

[David M. Lloyd]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 16:30 -0600, Chris Friesen wrote:
> Glen Turner wrote:
> 
> > The question is, how can a process with no relationship to another
> > process detect that process unexpectedly dying?  If named goes
> > away to a better place, we want to shut down the interface
> > which causes Quagga to inject the anycast route.

> We did something similar where arbitrary processes can register to be 
> sent an arbitrary signal when the state of other processes change.

What about something like inotify, but for processes?  That would be
cool...

- DML

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