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perhaps you are right (although I don't quite understand what "publicity people" will have to do with a kernel scheduler), but the Unix world seems to have done
by jsrn 17y ago
perhaps you are right (although I don't quite understand what "publicity people" will have to do with a kernel scheduler), but the Unix world seems to have done not too badly with non-PC expressions such as "killing" or "starving" a process.
The kill system call even made it into "serious" standard documents:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kill.html http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/kil...
- Nwallins 17y agoAh, but don't forget LA County's outrage at Master/Slave designations. http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/outrage/master.asp
- Scott_MacGregor 17y agoIf it is picked up and used by any big name in the industry, some of the blogs will probably pick it up and make a mockery out the name. From a business standpoint, this might be a concern for some companies.