From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1901091624410.65590@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Warner Losh wrote:
> The name seems obvious because I've seen it for the last 30 years. But
> I've not seen it used elsewhere, nor have I seen it documented except in
> relationship to Unix. It could have been called blkio or bufio or bio or
> even just work or morework and still been as meaningful. VMS uses the
> FDT table to process the IRPs sent down. RT-11 has a series of entry
> points that have boring names. Other systems have a start routine
> (though more often that is a common routine used by both the queue me
> and isr functions). There is a wide diversity here...
I must admit that this is an interesting thread, just as long as it wasn't
called XXoptimize() unless you wanted a backlash from British English
speakers :-)
In hindsight I suppose that XXstrategy() is obvious, but back then, as you
ask? Dunno, but Ken might (if he's reading this thread).
One of my favo[u]rites is sched(); some pronounce it as "shed" and others
as "sked". Another American/British thing, I think...
Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "Two nations divided by a common language"?
I no longer have my Lions books on me, sadly enough (lost in a house move)
but there certainly were some peculiar names in the kernel...
ObGripe: Could anyone replying to the digest version please take the
trouble to update the Subject: line accordingly? I've now put the
original back as a courtesy to others, but I shouldn't have to; it's as
bad as top-posting.
-- Dave
next reply other threads:[~2019-01-09 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-09 5:42 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2019-01-09 12:02 ` Dan Cross
2019-01-09 15:12 ` [TUHS] Lions book (not " Bakul Shah
2019-01-09 16:09 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 16:20 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-09 16:50 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 22:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09 17:50 ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-09 17:55 ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 17:20 ` Andy Kosela
2019-01-09 22:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09 23:09 ` Cág
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-01-07 21:21 [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2019-01-07 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-07 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2019-01-07 22:28 ` Erik E. Fair
2019-01-09 20:51 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-09 23:30 ` Dave Horsfall
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