Re: detecting process termination in kernel?
Re: detecting process termination in kernel?
- Subject: Re: detecting process termination in kernel?
- From: Terry Lambert <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 20:06:53 -0700
On Mar 30, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Greg wrote:
Hi, given several process IDs, what are the different ways of
finding out (being notified, etc), of when a specific PID
terminates? I know that kqueues can be used in userland (with
EVFILT PROC), can they be used as well from a KEXT?
If you are a KEXT, you typically export a device node and have the
process open it. When the process terminates, the resource tracking
close for the device node will be triggered as part of the process
exit, which will notify you that it has gone away.
This is probably not useful for you, since wanting to know about
processes other than processes with which you've already established a
communications channel generally means you don't really want to solve
the problem you are trying to solve by monitoring user space processes.
Also, proc_find() can return false positives, so you will not want to
poll either; there are a finite number of PIDs available, and
eventually they get recycled. If you are trying to do something by
PID, then you are probably also not doing what you want to do , since
having a PID is not necessarily the same as having a unique identifier
for a process.
-- Terry
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