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

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Davide Libenzi wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> > > Maybe "struct posix_process" is more descriptive?  "struct process_posix"?
> > > "Ugly POSIX process semantics data" seems simple enough to stick in a struct
> > > name.  "struct uglyposix_process"?
> > Guys, you didn't read my message.
> >
> > It's *not* about "process" stuff.  Anything that tries to call it a 
> > "process" is *by*definition* worse than what it is now. Processes have all 
> > the things that we've cleanly separated out for filesystem, VM, SysV 
> > semaphore state, namespaces etc.
> >
> > The "struct signal_struct" is the random *leftovers* from all the other 
> > stuff. It's *not* about "processes". Never has been, and never will be. 
>
> I proposed "struct task_shared_ctx" but you ducked :)
Descriptive, correct, I like it!

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