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Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 21:18:46 -0700
From: "Joshua Hudson" <joshudson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename "swapper" to "idle"
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On 4/20/06, Bernd Eckenfels <be-news06@lina.inka.de> wrote:
> Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> > This patch renames the "swapper" process (pid 0) to a more appropriate name "idle". The name "swapper" is not obviously meaningful and confuses a lot of people (e.g., when seen in oops report).
> > Patch not tested, but I guess it works. :-)

As we saw in "Which process is associated with process ID 0 (swapper)",
pid 0 can actually do things, such as resend TCP packets. Methinks idle
isn't the best name either.

>
> on win the system idle process shows up in taskmanager so you can see its
> cpu usage and ctx switches scheduled from it. We could avoid the skipping in
> /proc, also?
>
> Gruss
> Bernd
Please, no!

I already have to explain this mess about Windows. We shouldn't be implementing
Microsoft's flaws. Why waist the a line of screen for top?