Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Tech-board-discuss] [Ksummit-discuss] [PATCH] CodingStyle: Inclusive Terminology | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Sat, 4 Jul 2020 19:44:30 -0700 |
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On 7/4/20 6:10 PM, 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.)
Did you read this message?
https://lore.kernel.org/ksummit-discuss/CAPM=9ty0tiL_qM_UFv0S0VtARKz_f-Anngc+amDM5LjGAHazhA@mail.gmail.com/
> 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). :) >
-- ~Randy
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