Prefix / Naming USERCR API

Serge E. Hallyn serue at us.ibm.com
Sun Apr 11 10:02:25 PDT 2010


Quoting Oren Laadan (orenl at cs.columbia.edu):
> 
> 
> Sukadev Bhattiprolu wrote:
> > | > So, what would be a good prefix ?
> > | > 
> > | > 	cr_
> > | > 		cr_checkpoint.h, libcr.a
> > | > 		cr_checkpoint() cr_restart() cr_freeze() cr_migrate()
> > | > 		struct cr_checkpoint_args, struct cr_restart_args
> > | > 	acr_ 
> > | > 		Only advantage over 'cr_' is lesser likelihood of collision
> > | > 
> > | > 		acr_checkpoint.h, libacr.a
> > | > 		acr_checkpoint() acr_restart() acr_freeze() acr_migrate()
> > | > 		struct acr_checkpoint_args, struct acr_restart_args
> > | > 
> > | > 	lxcr_	
> > | > 		lxcr_checkpoint.h, liblxcr.a 
> > | > 		lxcr_checkpoint() lxcr_restart() lxcr_freeze() lxcr_migrate()
> > | > 		struct lxcr_checkpoint_args, struct lxcr_restart_args
> > | 
> > | I do not think lxcr_ prefix is a good choice as lxc is about container
> > | and could use different libraries for the checkpoint/restart function.
> > 
> > I was thinking of lx as short for linux, but ok. we can drop lxcr_.
> > 
> > Any NACKS to 'acr_' ? If not, I will go with it - for now :-)
> > 
> 
> I vote for 'cr_' to match the terminology we use in the docs
> and emails ('c/r').
> 
> ... and for brevity :p
> 
> Oren.

'me too'


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