[Crash-utility] crashdc needs to change its name
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Wed Oct 7 13:04:12 UTC 2009
----- "Louis Bouchard" <louis.bouchard at hp.com> wrote:
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> Hello everyone,
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> It did not occur to me that the name crashdc, which is identical to the
> Tru64's script name, might appear to some people as a reference to 9/11
> events at the pentagon.
>
> It was not obvious to me, a canadian living in France, but there is
> potential for a misunderstanding. So I decided to take the early
> opportunity to change the name to something else.
>
> Right now, I have a couple of potential names for it :
>
> - crashcoll
> - forensic
> - forensics
>
> crashcoll has a more "unix/linux" sounding name and its name refers to crash.
>
> forensic(s) are more related to the work that the script intend to do
> and the information it is meant to gather.
>
> None of them seem to have an existence in the Linux realm.
>
> Does someone have comment/suggestions ?
Wow -- I would never have even made that connection. Did somebody actually
bring that up to you or to HP?
IMHO I think you're being way too oversensitive...
Dave
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