Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2020 08:53:25 -0700 | From | Kees Cook <> | Subject | Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology |
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2020 at 01:15:38PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > 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 :-).
Ah-ha, cool. I think I found it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtS_t3FHWe0
-- Kees Cook
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