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

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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