From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752841AbXDISRZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:17:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752848AbXDISRZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:17:25 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60426 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752841AbXDISRY (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:17:24 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:09:51 -0400 Message-ID: <461A816F.4050507@tmr.com> References: <20070406104301.GB19755@lnx-holt.americas.sgi.com> <20070406163100.GA554@tv-sign.ru> <20070406191945.GA18255@elte.hu> <20070409082847.GA2228@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org Cc: Linus Torvalds , Davide Libenzi , "Eric W. Biederman" , Oleg Nesterov , Robin Holt , Chris Snook , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jack Steiner X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.tmr.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 In-Reply-To: <20070409082847.GA2228@elte.hu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: >>>> or lets just face it and name it what it is: process_struct ;-) >>> That'd be fine too! Wonder if Linus would swallow a rename patch like >>> that... >> I don't really see the point. It's not even *true*. A "process" >> includes more than the shared signal-handling - it would include files >> and fs etc too. >> >> So it's actually *more* correct to call it the shared signal state >> than it would be to call it "process" state. > > we could call it "structure for everything that we know to be ugly about > POSIX process semantics" ;-) The rest, like files and fs we've > abstracted out already. > > Ingo So are you voting for ugly_struct? ;-) I do think this is still waiting for a more descriptive name, like proc_misc_struct or some such. Kernel code should be treated as literature, intended to be both read and readable. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot