Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology | From | "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <> | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 13:15:38 +0200 |
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On 7/5/20 3:10 AM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:10:33PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >> Left-right tree makes no sense. It doesn't distinguish the rbtree from its >> predecessor the avl tree. I don't think it's helpful to rename a standard >> piece of computing terminology unless it's actually hurting us to have it. >> Obviously if it were called a "master-slave" tree, I would be in favour of >> renaming it. > > (No one has suggested renaming red/black trees, so I think the > slippery-slope argument can be set aside here.) > > As for the actual proposal on white/black-list, I've always been annoyed > by the poor description it provides (and I get to see it A LOT being > the seccomp maintainer). I welcome allow/deny-list (though the change is > not new for seccomp -- the man pages were updated last year (thanks > mkerrisk). :)
Actually, the manual pages are ahead of the game only thanks to a nice presentation last year @OSS from Stephen Kenigbolo :-).
-- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
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