Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

[Bill Davidsen]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxx>
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