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Meta: > eBPF (no longer an acronym) […] Any reason why the official acronym was done away with?
by throw0101d 2y ago
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> eBPF (no longer an acronym) […]
Any reason why the official acronym was done away with?
- Jedd 2y agoTechnically it was never an acronym - rather an initialism or abbreviation.
- riskable 2y agoBecause it used to stand for extended Berkeley Packet Filter and it has since moved far, far beyond just packets. It now hooks into the entire network stack, security, and does observability/tracing for nearly anything and everything in the kernel ("nearly" because some stuff runs when the kernel boots up--before eBPF is loaded--and never again after that).
- sandywaffles 2y agoBecause eBPF is no longer just packet filtering? It's now used in loads of hook pionts unrelated to packets or filtering at all.