On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi! >> You selected stupid name for a flag. Everyone and their dog agrees >> with that. There's even consensus on better name (and everyone agrees >> it is better than .._SAFE). Of course, we could have debate if it is >> NOREPLACE or NOREMOVE or ... and that would be bikeshed. This was just >> poor naming on your part. > > Well while everybody agrees that the name is so bad that basically > anything else would be better, there does not seem to be consensus on > which one to pick. I do understand that this frustrating and fruitless. Based on the earlier threads where I tried to end the bikeshedding, it seemed like MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE was the least bad option. > So what do we do now, roll a dice to choose new name? > > Or do we ask BFDL[1] to choose the name? I'd like to hear feedback from Michael Kerrisk, as he's had to deal with these kinds of choices in the past. I'm fine to ask Linus too. I just want to get past the name since the feature is quite valuable. And if Michal doesn't want to touch this patch any more, I'm happy to do the search/replace/resend. :P -Kees -- Kees Cook Pixel Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
