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

[Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>]

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 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!

He's stubborn, he'll never accept patches. Must be a seasonal thing ;)



- Davide


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/