Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 15:48:14 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
> Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> writes: > > > no. Two _completely separate_ lists. > > > > i.e. a to-be-reaped task will still be on the main list _too_. The > > main list is for all the PID semantics rules. The reap-list is just > > for wait4() processing. The two would be completely separate. > > And what pray tell except for heuristics is the list of children used > for?
on a second thought: the p->children list is needed for the whole child/parent task tree, which is needed for sys_getppid(). The question is, does anything require us to reparent to within the same thread group?
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