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Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 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. > > we could call it "structure for everything that we know to be ugly about > POSIX process semantics" ;-) The rest, like files and fs we've > abstracted out already. > > Ingo So are you voting for ugly_struct? ;-) I do think this is still waiting for a more descriptive name, like proc_misc_struct or some such. Kernel code should be treated as literature, intended to be both read and readable. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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