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Linux term in terms of blacklist and slave

13/07/2020 07:22 by giorgos

Linus Torvalds on Friday approved a new and more comprehensive terminology for kernel code and Linux documentation.

In the future, Linux developers will have to use new terms for master / slave and blacklist / whitelist terminology.

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Suggested alternatives for master / slave include:

primary / secondary
main / replica or subordinate
initiator / target
requester / responder
controller / device
host / worker or proxy
leader / follower
director / performer

Suggested alternatives to blacklist / whitelist include:

denylist / allowlist
blocklist / passlist

The Linux team did not suggest specific terms, but asked developers to choose accordingly.

The new terms will be used for the new Linux kernel source code and related documentation.

Older terms, which are now considered inadequate, will only be allowed to retain older code and documentation, or "when updating the code for an existing (2020) hardware or protocol that enforces these terms."

The move to remove master / slave and blacklist / whitelist terminology came after a proposal made by Linux kernel maintainer Dan Williams on July 4th.

The Linux team has now joined many technology companies and open source projects that have removed various references to racially charged terminology from their code for a more neutral and comprehensive language.

The list includes Twitter, GitHub, Microsoft, LinkedIn, Ansible, Splunk, Android, Go, MySQL, PHPUnit, Curl, OpenZFS, Rust, JP Morgan and many more.

This trend started after the outbreak of the Black Lives Matter protests in the USA, which were triggered by the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020.

Linux term in terms of blacklist and slave was last modified: 13 July, 2020, 7: 22 am by giorgos

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