Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 6 Apr 2007 15:31:22 -0700 (PDT) | From | Davide Libenzi <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. |
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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds 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.
But "signal" has *nothing* to do with what the structure store nowadays, really. It's a pool of "things" that are not Linux task specific. IMO something like "struct task_shared_ctx" or simply "struct task_shared" would better fit the nature of the thing.
- Davide
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