Getting process information/Controlling process resource usage

Getting process information/Controlling process resource usage

Post by Kong Fan Dav » Sat, 14 Oct 1995 04:00:00



Hi,

        I'm writing a process monitor on Linux. I've 2 questions:

1. How to detect if a process has crashed? Say, if a process hangs, will
   it consume any more CPU time?

2. Is it possible to control the resource limits of a process A by, say,
   process B (run as root)? It seems that the system calls setrlimit,
   ulimit, etc do not take pid as an argument.

        Thanks!

-David