Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Tech-board-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

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 :-).


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