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

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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
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