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Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function (www.phoronix.com)
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While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a "genocide" function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19.

Introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2023 was the d_genocide() function as part of various dcache updates to the kernel. The genocide name was questioned when the patches were first posted by longtime Linux developer Al Viro

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[–] azerial@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

Reminds me of when I worked for EA on the development and release engineering team and we had to scrape all of our Jenkins and QuickBuild code base to remove references of "master" and "slave" and change it to "parent" and "child" or "primary" and "secondary".