On 10/03/2017 11:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 03/10/2017 05:15, John Snow wrote: >> For drive-backup and blockdev-backup, expose the manual-cull >> property, having it default to false. There are no universal >> creation parameters, so it must be added to each job type that >> it makes sense for individually. >> >> Signed-off-by: John Snow <js...@redhat.com>
[...] > > The verb "cull" is a bit weird. The only alternative that comes to mind > though are "reap" (like processes). There's also "join" (like threads), > but would imply waiting if the jobs hasn't completed yet, and we > probably don't want it. > > Paolo > Sure, open to suggestions. I think Kevin suggested "delete" which I have reservations about because of people potentially confusing it with "cancel" or "complete" -- it does not have the capacity to end/terminate/finish/complete/cancel a job. "reap" might be fine. I don't really have any strong preference. --js
