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

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Message-ID: <m1irc51fo9.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:00:38 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>
Cc:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>,
	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.

Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com> writes:

> 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"?

Nack.

Linux internally doesn't have processes it has tasks with different
properties.  Anything that talks about processes will be even more
confusing.

The only thing really wrong with struct signal is that it is easy to
confuse with struct sighand.

Eric
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