[comp.unix.wizards] Notification of client dying in server/client rpc code

derek@boingo.med.jhu.edu (Derek Ney) (03/18/91)

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