On 2002-10-15 00:12, Nicolas Christin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> >  > Would people be open to renaming the 'MSIZE' kernel option to something
> >  > more specific such as 'MBUF_SIZE' or 'MBUFSIZE'?  Using 'MSIZE' can
> >
> > No.
> >
> > MSIZE is a traditional BSDism.  Everybody else still uses it.
> > Even AIX and MacOS.  I really don't like the idea of changing this.
>
> True, but John is right, it's too generic a name. The argument "it's
> been forever so we can't change it" seems a bit fallacious to me:

True.  But that sort of reasoning might lead us one day to rename
macros and functions like m_get() to mbuf_get() or similar.  That
doesn't seem like a good idea :-/

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