Re: [PATCH 2/2] mmap.2: MAP_FIXED updated documentation

[Michael Ellerman]

Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
> <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Hello Kees,
>>
>> I'm late to the party, and only just caught up with the fuss :-).
>
> No worries!
>
>> On 12/14/2017 12:19 AM, Kees Cook wrote:
>>> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 6:40 AM, Cyril Hrubis <chrubis@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>> You selected stupid name for a flag. Everyone and their dog agrees
>>>>> with that. There's even consensus on better name (and everyone agrees
>>>>> it is better than .._SAFE). Of course, we could have debate if it is
>>>>> NOREPLACE or NOREMOVE or ... and that would be bikeshed. This was just
>>>>> poor naming on your part.
>>>>
>>>> Well while everybody agrees that the name is so bad that basically
>>>> anything else would be better, there does not seem to be consensus on
>>>> which one to pick. I do understand that this frustrating and fruitless.
>>>
>>> Based on the earlier threads where I tried to end the bikeshedding, it
>>> seemed like MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE was the least bad option.
>>>
>>>> So what do we do now, roll a dice to choose new name?
>>>>
>>>> Or do we ask BFDL[1] to choose the name?
>>>
>>> I'd like to hear feedback from Michael Kerrisk, as he's had to deal
>>> with these kinds of choices in the past. I'm fine to ask Linus too. I
>>> just want to get past the name since the feature is quite valuable.
>>>
>>> And if Michal doesn't want to touch this patch any more, I'm happy to
>>> do the search/replace/resend. :P
>>
>> Something with the prefix MAP_FIXED_ seems to me obviously desirable,
>> both to suggest that the function is similar, and also for easy
>> grepping of the source code to look for instances of both.
>> MAP_FIXED_SAFE didn't really bother me as a name, but
>> MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE (or MAP_FIXED_NOCLOBBER) seem slightly more
>> descriptive of what the flag actually does, so a little better.
>
> Great, thanks!
>
> Andrew, can you s/MAP_FIXED_SAFE/MAP_FIXED_NOREPLACE/g in the series?

This seems to have not happened. Presumably Andrew just missed the mail
in the flood. And will probably miss this one too ... :)

cheers