On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:15 AM Eric Blake wrote:
> > > Makes no difference to implementations (other than older code
> > > still using 'handle' may be slightly
On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:15 AM Eric Blake wrote:
> > Makes no difference to implementations (other than older code
> > still using 'handle' may be slightly harder to tie back to the spec).
>
> To avoid confusion with older code that
On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 04:15:03PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> In libnbd, we quickly learned that distinguishing between 'handle'
> (verb for acting on an object) and 'handle' (noun describing which
> object to act on) could get confusing; we solved it by renaming the
> latter to 'cookie'. Copy
On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:15 AM Eric Blake wrote:
>
> In libnbd, we quickly learned that distinguishing between 'handle'
> (verb for acting on an object) and 'handle' (noun describing which
> object to act on) could get confusing; we solved it by renaming the
> latter to 'cookie'. Copy that
On 3/3/23 23:15, Eric Blake wrote:
> In libnbd, we quickly learned that distinguishing between 'handle'
> (verb for acting on an object) and 'handle' (noun describing which
> object to act on) could get confusing; we solved it by renaming the
> latter to 'cookie'. Copy that approach into the NBD
In libnbd, we quickly learned that distinguishing between 'handle'
(verb for acting on an object) and 'handle' (noun describing which
object to act on) could get confusing; we solved it by renaming the
latter to 'cookie'. Copy that approach into the NBD spec, and make it
obvious that a cookie is
