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

Davide Libenzi
2007-04-06T21:29:33Z

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

>
> * Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
>
> > > > Ohhh, the "signal" struct! Funny name for something that nowadays
> > > > has probably no more than a 5% affinity with signal-related tasks
> > > > :/
> > >
> > > Hmm. I wonder if we should just rename it the struct thread_group,
> > > or struct task_group. Those seem slightly more accurate names.
> >
> > Almost *anything* is better than "signal_struct" ;) A task_group could
> > be fine, so something on the line of task_shared_ctx.
>
> 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...

- Davide