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

[Davide Libenzi]

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Davide Libenzi <davidel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > > Ohhh, the "signal" struct! Funny name for something that nowadays 
> > > > has probably no more than a 5% affinity with signal-related tasks 
> > > > :/
> > > 
> > > Hmm.  I wonder if we should just rename it the struct thread_group, 
> > > or struct task_group.  Those seem slightly more accurate names.
> > 
> > Almost *anything* is better than "signal_struct" ;) A task_group could 
> > be fine, so something on the line of task_shared_ctx.
> 
> 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...


- Davide


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