Adam Borowski dijo [Fri, Jan 05, 2018 at 09:42:31PM +0100]: > Hi! > I'd like to ask for help with devising an acronym, as my ability with puns > or other wordplay in any language is almost non-existant. > > Background: I'm working on a kernel facility to set a policy for filenames, > for security reasons. The recommended defaults are banning '\n' and 01..31, > the user can also elect to ban invalid Unicode, initial and final spaces, > initial '-', etc. The initial hard-coded patch was NACKed, and I was told > to re-do this as a LSM. > > A LSM needs a name, and the tradition is to use bad acronyms, of which "Yet > Another Meaningless Acronym" takes the cake.
A plus point for YAMA is that, in Spanish, we say "¿cómo se llama?" meaning "how is it called?" ("y" and "ll" are mostly homophone in this spot).