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On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> > > 
> > > 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...
> 
> I don't really see the point. It's not even *true*. A "process" includes 
> more than the shared signal-handling - it would include files and fs etc 
> too.
> 
> So it's actually *more* correct to call it the shared signal state than it 
> would be to call it "process" state.

But "signal" has *nothing* to do with what the structure store nowadays, 
really. It's a pool of "things" that are not Linux task specific.
IMO something like "struct task_shared_ctx" or simply "struct task_shared" 
would better fit the nature of the thing.



- Davide