Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

Bill Davidsen
2007-04-10T15:19:22Z

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
>>> Maybe "struct posix_process" is more descriptive? "struct process_posix"?
>>> "Ugly POSIX process semantics data" seems simple enough to stick in a struct
>>> name. "struct uglyposix_process"?
>> Guys, you didn't read my message.
>>
>> It's *not* about "process" stuff. Anything that tries to call it a
>> "process" is *by*definition* worse than what it is now. Processes have all
>> the things that we've cleanly separated out for filesystem, VM, SysV
>> semaphore state, namespaces etc.
>>
>> The "struct signal_struct" is the random *leftovers* from all the other
>> stuff. It's *not* about "processes". Never has been, and never will be.
>
> I proposed "struct task_shared_ctx" but you ducked :)
>
Descriptive, correct, I like it!

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