From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id b761ea8e for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 05:43:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 6063AA35E8; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:43:17 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 706E7A35C4; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:42:40 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 3DC36A35C4; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:42:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from viclamta13p.bpe.bigpond.com (viclamta13p.bpe.bigpond.com [203.38.21.77]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D683FA35B7 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 15:42:35 +1000 (AEST) Received: from smtp.telstra.com ([10.10.26.4]) by viclafep13p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au with ESMTP id <20190109054233.QALQ28035.viclafep13p-svc.bpe.nexus.telstra.com.au@smtp.telstra.com> for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:33 +1100 X-RG-Spam: Unknown X-RazorGate-Vade-Verdict: clean 0 X-RazorGate-Vade-Classification: clean X-RazorGate-Vade: gggruggvucftvghtrhhoucdtuddrgedtledrfedtgdekkecutefuodetggdotefrodftvfcurfhrohhfihhlvgemucfupfevtfgpvffgnffuvfftteenuceurghilhhouhhtmecufedttdenucenucfjughrpeffhffvuffkfgggtgesthdttddttdervdenucfhrhhomhepffgrvhgvucfjohhrshhfrghllhcuoegurghvvgeshhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgqeenucfkphepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffeenucfrrghrrghmpehhvghloheprghnvghurhhinhdrhhhorhhsfhgrlhhlrdhorhhgpdhinhgvthepuddutddrudeguddrudelfedrvdeffedpmhgrihhlfhhrohhmpeeouggrvhgvsehhohhrshhfrghllhdrohhrgheqpdhrtghpthhtohepoehtuhhhshesthhuhhhsrdhorhhgqeenucevlhhushhtvghrufhiiigvpedt X-RG-VS-CLASS: clean Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (110.141.193.233) by smtp.telstra.com (9.0.019.26-1) id 5BB3FBB6115A1E78 for tuhs@tuhs.org; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 Received: from aneurin.horsfall.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id x095gWEq068798 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) Received: from localhost (dave@localhost) by aneurin.horsfall.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id x095gWXB068795 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from dave@horsfall.org) X-Authentication-Warning: aneurin.horsfall.org: dave owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 16:42:32 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.21.9999 (BSF 287 2018-06-16) X-GPG-Public-Key: http://www.horsfall.org/gpgkey.pub X-GPG-Fingerprint: 05B4 FFBC 0218 B438 66E0 587B EF46 7357 EF5E F58B X-Home-Page: http://www.horsfall.org/ X-Witty-Saying: "chmod 666 the_mode_of_the_beast" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy' X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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