On Sat, Jul 04, 2020 at 08:10:33PM -0400, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > Left-right tree makes no sense. It doesn't distinguish the rbtree from its > predecessor the avl tree. I don't think it's helpful to rename a standard > piece of computing terminology unless it's actually hurting us to have it. > Obviously if it were called a "master-slave" tree, I would be in favour of > renaming it.
(No one has suggested renaming red/black trees, so I think the slippery-slope argument can be set aside here.) As for the actual proposal on white/black-list, I've always been annoyed by the poor description it provides (and I get to see it A LOT being the seccomp maintainer). I welcome allow/deny-list (though the change is not new for seccomp -- the man pages were updated last year (thanks mkerrisk). :) -- Kees Cook
