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Linux 6.19 Gets Rid Of The Kernel's "Genocide" Function (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 1 day ago by cm0002@lemmy.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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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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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

I did have a very real work experience where people went "a what list" when I mentioned we had a black list of software built. I am kind of glad to move past black is bad, white means good phrasing tbh because some people are turned off by it.

If we could just end racism, as in the fucking stupid idea of race at all, it wouldn't matter. People are even black and white...