While the Linux kernel has inclusive terminology guidelines for the past five years to replace phrases like master/slave and blacklist/whitelist, there has surprisingly been a “genocide” function within the kernel that was questioned when it was first submitted for inclusion but now removed in Linux 6.19.
Introduced to the Linux kernel back in 2023 was the d_genocide() function as part of various dcache updates to the kernel. The genocide name was questioned when the patches were first posted by longtime Linux developer Al Viro
Fuckin exactly.
“It’s stupid to change it to main, it’s just words”
“Oh, so since it’s just a word change I guess you shouldn’t be bothered by it.”
I always get them with “main is shorter than master, don’t you want to type less?”
In software engineering, saying “it’s just a word change” without a technical rationale ought to have you murdered on the spot.