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From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:28:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEoi9W4UdEbHRZ_T=KtYy2_KseZzSpvGvCw-qNizhRqvumQuPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrXQgsqsQYmYNw5L5dVE96Zs5PnJArZFcv0bsLzB0-EWw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 4:22 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> So what's the origin of the name 'strategy'  for the I/O routine in Unix
> that drivers provide? Everything I've found in the early papers just says
> that's what the routine is called. Is there a story behind why it was
> chosen? My own theory is that it's in the sense of 'coping strategy' when
> the driver needs to service more I/O for the upper layers, but that's just
> a WAG.
>

I always thought it had to do with computing the optimal strategy for
writing blocks to the disc device....  I wonder where I got that impression
from.  Perhaps reading Bach?

        - Dan C.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07 21:21 Warner Losh
2019-01-07 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-07 21:28 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2019-01-07 22:28   ` Erik E. Fair
2019-01-09 20:51 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-09 23:30   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09  5:42 Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09 12:02 ` Dan Cross

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