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Date:      Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:07:08 +1000
From:      Antony Mawer <fbsd-current@mawer.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: kthreads->kproc and back to kthread.. next patch
Message-ID:  <471E7E9C.60706@mawer.org>
In-Reply-To: <471D4758.2040209@elischer.org>
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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



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