Re: kthreads->kproc and back to kthread.. next patch

From: Antony Mawer <fbsd-current_at_mawer.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:08 +1000
On 23/10/2007 10:59 AM, Julian Elischer wrote:
> Ivan Voras wrote:
...
>>
>> (don't get me wrong, I have nothing against kthreads<->kprocs :) )
> 
> Alan Cox is here next to me and we are discussing whether all the 
> threads that
> are in the kernel should be put under PID 0 and have it called "kernel"
> instead of "swapper". It's swapper thread would be called "swapper" 
> however.

This would seem like a sensible naming system / structure from a 
non-kernel-hacker point of view... :-)

--Antony
Received on Tue Oct 23 2007 - 21:08:36 UTC

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