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Date:      Tue, 2 Dec 2014 10:22:18 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@me.com>
Subject:   Re: Process reapers
Message-ID:  <C5EF3CF9-0F2E-4E75-A53A-49FCC9245B83@mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20141202093109.GG97072@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20141201185237.GC97072@kib.kiev.ua> <2BBA8329-C8F4-452D-B6C2-E129FCD6D666@me.com> <20141202093109.GG97072@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Dec 2, 2014, at 1:31 AM, Konstantin Belousov wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 02:43:17PM -0800, Rui Paulo wrote:
>> One comment I have is that we could rename the variables to something =
more meaningful instead of "p1" or "p2".  If "p1" is the reaper, we =
could call it "p_reaper".
>>=20
> p_reaper is too confusing even to write, it is the same as the name
> of the struct proc member.  p1/p2 is the pattern used in dofork(), so
> I followed it for new code.
>=20
> I could rename p1 to something else, but also short, since LIST_*
> constructs are long and clumsy.  Might be, s/p1/rp/ ?

Without too much bike shed=85 p_reap should work? 'reaper' is fine too.

Having a mix of 2 char vars is very hard to read six months later and =
for eternity after that. ;)

-Alfred=



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