linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v11 00/20] Compile-time stack validation

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1508261018170.25821@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:44:07 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
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	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 00/20] Compile-time stack validation

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > BTW, since I'm planning on adding a CFI generation option to this tool, I wonder 
> > if "stackvalidate" is a misnomer.  I can't think of anything better.  Any naming 
> > ideas are welcome :-)
> 
> I'd suggest 'debuginfo' and a Git-alike set of subcommands:

IMO every name which is not googlable (like this one, because it already 
has other meaning) is bad.

I always hated how 'crash' utlity is called, exactly because of this.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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