Messages in this thread | | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children. | Date | Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:12:22 -0400 |
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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!
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