* Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote: > > > > > > 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... > > I don't really see the point. It's not even *true*. A "process" > includes more than the shared signal-handling - it would include files > and fs etc too. > > So it's actually *more* correct to call it the shared signal state > than it would be to call it "process" state. we could call it "structure for everything that we know to be ugly about POSIX process semantics" ;-) The rest, like files and fs we've abstracted out already. Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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