On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:08:58 +0100 Bruce Richardson <bruce.richard...@intel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 07:52:36PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > The term abort is on the "Replace now" list of words. > > Use cancel instead. > > > I see cancel generally being used as a replacement throughout this > patchset, but I wonder if the use of th term could be confusing as it > doesn't strictly match the term "abort" at least to my mind. > > When an operation is aborted, (to me anyway) it generally means that the > operation is just stopped at whatever point it is at, and nothing more is > done. However, when an operation is cancelled, that would imply to me that > the operation is not only stopped, but whatever tasks were already done by > that operation are undone. Would others share this understanding? If so, we > should make the rollback/no-rollback behaviour clear. > > /Bruce It seemed like the best of the alternatives proposed here: https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-1/abort/ Recommended Replacements User-Initiated Termination Force quit Cancel System-Initiated Termination Fail Close (app, program, connection) End Halt Hard stop Stop (something you triggered) I don't think the rollback semantics are implied by either word. They should be spelled out more though.
