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

[Eric W. Biederman]

Roland Dreier <rdreier@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>  > no. Two _completely separate_ lists.
>  > 
>  > i.e. a to-be-reaped task will still be on the main list _too_. The main 
>  > list is for all the PID semantics rules. The reap-list is just for 
>  > wait4() processing. The two would be completely separate.
>
> I guess this means we add another list head to struct task_struct.
> Not that big a deal, but it does make me a little sad to think about
> task_struct getting even bigger....

signal_struct please.  It isn't that much better but still...

Eric
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