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christos > On Jun 15, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Kamil Rytarowski <[email protected]> wrote: > > Signed PGP part > On 15.06.2020 20:05, Alexander Nasonov wrote: >> Christos Zoulas wrote: >>> >>> Hello folks, >>> >>> I've renamed blacklist to blocklist, so if you are currently using it, >>> you should rename things accordingly: >>> >>> - rc.conf variable >>> - /var/db/blacklist.db file >>> - npf table name >>> >>> Apologies for the inconvenience, >> >> I doubt that you can express a concept of exclusion without offending >> anyone. E.g. the new term reminds me of blockades. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_blockades >> > > Whitelist/blacklist is a regular term in computing. I have never seen > 'blocklisting' before. > > According to grep.app: blacklisting 4560 results vs blocklisting 51, > while blocklisting is (or was) more associated with other terms like > listing block coverage (as opposed to branch coverage). > > New name/term is confusing. > > > <sanitizer.log>
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