Naming thing was always, and remains the hardest problem in Computer Science.
/niels Sent from [Proton Mail](https://proton.me/mail/home) for iOS On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 08:54, Christian Schulte <[c...@schulte.it](mailto:On Sun, Aug 3, 2025 at 08:54, Christian Schulte <<a href=)> wrote: > Am 29.07.2025 um 13:15 schrieb Crystal Kolipe: >> On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 03:19:40AM -0700, Neel Chakraborty wrote: >>> Hello everyone, hope you're having a great day. I am looking for >>> resources to learn modern C, so that I can understand (and hopefully >>> someday contribute) to the OpenBSD source code, in areas like device >>> drivers, kernel and the init system. >> >> Since you already have some experience, the best resource is probably the >> OpenBSD source itself. Just dive in and make some small local changes in >> areas that interest you. Once you're confident that your patches are mostly >> correct, post them to -tech for review and see what feedback you get. >> > > OpenBSD source would be *the* best source if only someone would stand up > and document all those abbreviations in use where they are declared. > Just a quick example: > > uiomove(void *cp, size_t n, struct uio *uio) > > We all know how to read that cp, of course. Stands for (c)annot > (p)redict, right? Same for something like softc. Stands for "soft"ware > "c"onfusion, right? > > That's pretty much not the easiest codebase to get a hold on without any > experience. > > -- > Christian
