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

[Kyle Moffett]

On Apr 09, 2007, at 14:09:51, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> 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.
> 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.

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"?

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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