Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Apr 2007 14:51:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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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.
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