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From: derek@boingo.med.jhu.edu (Derek Ney)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Notification of client dying in server/client rpc code
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.151558.6528@boingo.med.jhu.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 15:15:58 GMT
Organization: The Johns Hopkins Hospital-Body CT Imaging Lab
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I have a set of modules that implement remote procedure calls
with the Sun RPC call library. I have a problem in that when
a client dies unexpectedly, the server has no way of finding out
that the client died and cannot free up resources. I am wondering
if there is any way to get the kernel to notify the server
when a process (the client) has died, similar to how a parent
process gets a SIGCHLD when a child dies. Please use e-mail, as
I do not routinely read this newsgroup.

-Derek Ney
derek@boingo.med.jhu.edu