On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 12:27:13AM -0500, Pat Erley wrote: > this ends up saving a few math operations any time a child > process exits. ( calling sched_exit(task_t * p) ) Yes, but does it have any noticeable effect on performance whatsoever? premature optimization, root of all evil, etc. Cheers, Muli -- Muli Ben-Yehuda http://www.mulix.org | http://mulix.livejournal.com/ "the nucleus of linux oscillates my world" - gccbot@#offtopic