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

Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-06T18:58:04Z

Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> writes:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
>> Sure. It would be nice to move ->children into signal_struct at first.
>> Except this change breaks (in fact fixes) ->pdeath_signal behaviour.
>
> 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.

I remember last time the conversation about renaming it came up no
one had a good name for it that wasn't already taken.

Eric