This article notes that blocklist is a confusing term as a list of blocks and notes a proposal of denylist. On 15.06.2020 21:10, Christos Zoulas wrote: > https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/github_replaces_master_with_main/ > > christos > >> On Jun 15, 2020, at 2:35 PM, Kamil Rytarowski <kamil%NetBSD.org@localhost >> <mailto:kamil%NetBSD.org@localhost>> wrote: >> >> Signed PGP part >> On 15.06.2020 20:05, Alexander Nasonov wrote: >>> Christos Zoulas wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello folks, >>>> >>>> I've renamed blacklist to blocklist, so if you are currently using it, >>>> you should rename things accordingly: >>>> >>>> - rc.conf variable >>>> - /var/db/blacklist.db file >>>> - npf table name >>>> >>>> Apologies for the inconvenience, >>> >>> I doubt that you can express a concept of exclusion without offending >>> anyone. E.g. the new term reminds me of blockades. >>> >>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_blockades >>> >> >> Whitelist/blacklist is a regular term in computing. I have never seen >> 'blocklisting' before. >> >> According to grep.app: blacklisting 4560 results vs blocklisting 51, >> while blocklisting is (or was) more associated with other terms like >> listing block coverage (as opposed to branch coverage). >> >> New name/term is confusing. >> >> >> <sanitizer.log> >
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