Re: bin/57900: Import monitor tool from DragonflyBSD

[Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/57900; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Simon Burge <simonb%NetBSD.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: bin/57900: Import monitor tool from DragonflyBSD
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2024 12:21:18 +1100

 Christos Zoulas wrote:
 > Jason Thorpe wrote:
 >
 > > I made a comment on that pull request that I think should be addressed =
 > > before the code is imported.
 > > 
 > > FWIW, I do not particularly like the name of this tool.  When I first =
 > > saw this report, not being familiar with the tool, I thought it was =
 > > related to computer displays.  But it's not a hill I'm willing to die =
 > > on, so if it's decided to import it with this name for the same of =
 > > compatibility, that's fine.
 >
 > I don't like the name either; filewatch would have been better. But what
 > is more evil to rename it and be different or live with the poor name?
 
 I have to agree the name is absolutely terrible.  If I google for
 "dragonflybsd" and "monitor" the first page of results talks about 4K
 displays, laptops, KDE, virtual machine monitors (NVMM), GPUs - none of
 which I can guess might be related to the tool in this PR.
 
 Much less evil to rename it ... although I still don't actually know
 what it monitors from a read of the PR and a quick search!  Maybe files
 because of Christos' comment?!
 
 Cheers,
 Simon.