procmgr_event_notify()

Arguments:

flags

A bitwise OR of the type of events that you want to be notified of, or 0 to unarm the sigevent. The event types include:

• PROCMGR_EVENT_APS_BANKRUPTCY
• PROCMGR_EVENT_CONFSTR
• PROCMGR_EVENT_CONTIG_ALLOC_FAIL
• PROCMGR_EVENT_DAEMON_DEATH
• PROCMGR_EVENT_PATHSPACE
• PROCMGR_EVENT_PROCESS_DEATH
• PROCMGR_EVENT_SYNC
• PROCMGR_EVENT_SYSCONF
• PROCMGR_EVENT_TOD

For more information, see “Event types,” below.

event

A pointer to a sigevent structure that specifies how you want to be notified.

Library:

libc

Use the -l c option to qcc to link against this library. This library is usually included automatically.

Description:

The procmgr_event_notify() function requests that the process manager notify the caller of the system-wide events identified by the given flags.

To remove the current notification request, pass a value of 0 for flags.

Event types

The following event types are defined in <sys/procmgr.h>:

PROCMGR_EVENT_APS_BANKRUPTCY

(QNX Neutrino 7.0 or later) An adaptive partition has gone bankrupt.

PROCMGR_EVENT_CONFSTR

A process set a configuration string.

PROCMGR_EVENT_CONTIG_ALLOC_FAIL

(QNX Neutrino 6.6 or later) An attempt to allocate contiguous memory failed.

PROCMGR_EVENT_DAEMON_DEATH

A process in session 1 died. This event is most useful for watching for the death of daemon processes that use procmgr_daemon() to put themselves in session 1 as well as close and redirect file descriptors. As a result of this closing and redirecting, the death of daemons is difficult to detect otherwise.

Note: Notification is via the given event. Before QNX Neutrino 6.6, no information was provided as to which process died. Once you received the event, you had to do something else to find out if processes that you cared about had died. You did this by walking through the list of all processes, looking for specific process IDs or process names. If you didn't find a process, then it had died. The sample code below demonstrates how you can do this.

In QNX Neutrino 6.6 or later, you can specify SIGEV_FLAG_UPDATEABLE as described below, and then the notification includes the process ID of the process that died.

PROCMGR_EVENT_PATHSPACE

(QNX Momentics 6.3.0 SP2 or later) A resource manager added or removed an entry (i.e., mountpoint) to or from the pathname space. This is generally associated with resource manager calls to resmgr_attach() and resmgr_detach(). Terminating a resource manager process also generates this event if the mountpoints haven't been detached.

PROCMGR_EVENT_PROCESS_DEATH

(QNX Neutrino 7.0 or later) Like PROCMGR_EVENT_DAEMON_DEATH, except that you're notified of every process that dies.

PROCMGR_EVENT_SYNC

A process called sync() to synchronize the filesystems.

PROCMGR_EVENT_SYSCONF

A process set a system configuration string.

PROCMGR_EVENT_TOD

(QNX Neutrino 6.6 or later) A process changed the time of day by calling ClockTime() or clock_settime().

(QNX Neutrino 6.6 or later) If you set SIGEV_FLAG_UPDATEABLE in the hidden bits in the sigevent structure, the kernel provides some additional information in the sigev_value member:

The code for generating the hash of the pathname is as follows:

static unsigned pathspace_hash( const unsigned char *str ) {

    unsigned hash, x;

    for (x = hash = 0 ; *str ; ++str) {
        hash = (hash << 4) + *str;
        if ((x = hash & 0xf0000000u) != 0) {
            hash ^= (x >> 24);
            hash &= ~x;
        }
    }
    // Modification from standard ELFHash so that client can tell that the
    // sigev_value field contains a hash if it's non-zero
    return hash | 0x80000000u;

}

Returns:

-1 on error (errno is set); any other value indicates success.

Examples:

/*
 * This code demonstrates procmgr_event_notify() with the PROCMGR_EVENT_PROCESS_DEATH
 * flag, which allows you to be notified if any process in session 1 dies.
 */
#include <ctype.h>
#include <devctl.h>
#include <dirent.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <libgen.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/neutrino.h>
#include <sys/procfs.h>
#include <sys/procmgr.h>

#define PROCESS_DIED_CODE   (_PULSE_CODE_MINAVAIL + 1)

int main( int argc, char **argv )
{
    int             chid, coid, rcvid;
    struct sigevent event;
    struct _pulse   msg;

    chid = ChannelCreate( _NTO_CHF_PRIVATE );
    if (0 > chid) {
        fprintf( stderr, "ChannelCreate() failed : %s", strerror(errno) );
        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
    }

    coid = ConnectAttach( 0, 0, chid, _NTO_SIDE_CHANNEL, _NTO_COF_CLOEXEC );
    if (0 > coid) {
        fprintf( stderr, "ConnectAttach() failed : %s", strerror(errno) );
        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
    }

    SIGEV_PULSE_INIT( &event, coid, SIGEV_PULSE_PRIO_INHERIT, PROCESS_DIED_CODE, 0 );
    SIGEV_MAKE_UPDATEABLE( &event );

    if (0 != MsgRegisterEvent( &event, SYSMGR_COID )) {
        fprintf( stderr, "MsgRegisterEvent() failed : %s", strerror(errno) );
        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
    }
    /*
     * Ask to be notified via a pulse whenever a process dies
     */
    if (procmgr_event_notify( PROCMGR_EVENT_PROCESS_DEATH, &event ) == -1) {
        fprintf( stderr, "procmgr_event_notify() failed : %s", strerror(errno) );
        exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
    }

    for(;;) {
        rcvid = MsgReceivePulse( chid, &msg, sizeof(msg), NULL );
        if (rcvid == -1) {
            fprintf( stderr, "MsgReceivePulse() failed : %s", strerror(errno) );
            exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
        }

        switch(msg.code) {
            case PROCESS_DIED_CODE:
                printf( "process pid:%i is no longer running\n", msg.value.sival_int );
                break;
        }
    }
    return 0;
}

Classification:

QNX Neutrino