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

Roland Dreier
2007-04-06T17:39:35Z

> 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....

- R.