On 3/7/07, Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But "namespace" has well-established historical semantics too - a way of changing the mappings of local * to global objects. This accurately describes things liek resource controllers, cpusets, resource monitoring, etc.
Sorry, I think this statement is wrong, by the generally established meaning of the term namespace in computer science.
Trying to extend the well-known term namespace to refer to things that are semantically equivalent namespaces is a useful approach, IMHO.
Yes, that would be true. But the kinds of groupings that we're talking about are supersets of namespaces, not semantically equivalent to them. To use Eric's "shoe" analogy from earlier, it's like insisting that we use the term "sneaker" to refer to all footware, including ski boots and birkenstocks ... Paul - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
