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

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Message-ID: <461BA956.5010107@tmr.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 11:12:22 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
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.

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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