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

Davide Libenzi
2007-04-10T19:17:20Z

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 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!

He's stubborn, he'll never accept patches. Must be a seasonal thing ;)

- Davide