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

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06T18:05:12Z

Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com> writes:

> > no. Two _completely separate_ lists.
> >
> > i.e. a to-be-reaped task will still be on the main list _too_. The main
> > list is for all the PID semantics rules. The reap-list is just for
> > wait4() processing. The two would be completely separate.
>
> I guess this means we add another list head to struct task_struct.
> Not that big a deal, but it does make me a little sad to think about
> task_struct getting even bigger....

signal_struct please. It isn't that much better but still...

Eric