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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
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Julian Elischer wrote:
> Y'know,
> 
> if we'd called the thread a "process"
> and the thing that has a pid a "task" (or something)
> 
> the actual functional changes would be a HECK of a lot 
> clearer in the diffs because I have 50k of functional changes and 
> 800+KB of 
> 
> -	struct proc *pB
> + 	struct thread *td;
> 
> 
> (just a comment)
> 
> Actually if we left processes as processes and then created
> 'super-processes', I think you could start now and
> still finish first.
> 
> (so far I have replaced about 4000 instances of struct proc with struct
> thread (mostly by hand))

IMHO, it is better to do it right rather than take a shortcut that we're
going to regret later.

Cheers,
-Peter
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