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Forum Topic - Generic notification of process death - why not?: Page 1 of 10 (10 Items)
   
Generic notification of process death - why not?  
Hi,

I'm pretty sure this has been asked before, but I cannot find the answer. 

In QNX4, a process could set the _PPF_INFORM process flag to receive a message from the kernel whenever any process died
.

In QNX6, there is no such mechanism any longer - at least not for being informed of the death of _any_ process for _any_
 reason. We can only get notification under certain conditions - for session 1, for child processes, for client 
processes connected to us, or for processes terminating abnormally.

Is there a specific reason that the process manager does not provide a generic process death notification mechanism? If 
so, what is that reason?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas