This might be a "plug-talk" subject, but it will affect how we write and use and archive Linux code, so it belongs on this list, practically speaking.
I've used the terms "black-list" and "white-list" for half a century. I just realized those terms are ideologically incorrect, and will derail a discussion, sooner or later. A little googling revealed alternatives. An obvious (and technically more accurate) replacement for "black-list" is "BLOCK-list". A bit of work to relearn, but trivial to implement technically. When I forget and mistakenly say "black", I can pretend you misheard me :-) "WHITE-list" is harder, many more variants in play. "Allow-list" is one alternative (same number of letters); "Pass-list" is faster to say (same number of syllables). Maybe "Pass--list" is optimum, since cut-and-paste changes checksums but not line and file lengths. I bring this up now, and here, because I would like to resolve this and practice making the change before some politically-correct pecksniff derails a technical discussion. Virtue signalling has its place (plug-talk), but I hope we can make this transition together, without rancor, maintaining focus on technical virtuosity instead. Let's discuss this /technically/ here, /virtuously/ on plug-talk. When we decide what to do, TOGETHER, how do we propagate it through millions of lines of code written by thousands over decades? Keith P.S. Genetically, I am "very-dilute-black". Many people with southern-US ancestors are. Some west-African genes protect against malaria, endemic in the antebellum south. Linux systems were used to discover this. References available off-list; discuss on plug-talk. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com