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

Davide Libenzi
2007-04-09T20:03:20Z

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 :)

- Davide