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

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 12:17:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...sign.ru>, Robin Holt <holt@....com>,
	Chris Snook <csnook@...hat.com>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@...ricas.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: init's children list is long and slows reaping children.

On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> 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!

He's stubborn, he'll never accept patches. Must be a seasonal thing ;)



- Davide


-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/