Re: [Libguestfs] [PATCH] docs: Prefer 'cookie' over 'handle'
On Sun, Mar 05, 2023 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 04, 2023 at 10:03:46PM +0200, Nir Soffer wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 4, 2023 at 12:15 AM Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > Makes no difference to implementations (other than older code
> > > still using 'handle' may be slightly harder to tie back to the spec).
> >
> > To avoid confusion with older code that carefully used "handle" to match
> > the spec, maybe add a note that "cookie" was named "handle" before?
>
> Yes, this. I'm happy with renaming it cookie (it makes sense), but there
> is a *lot* of stuff out there that calls it "handle" (including a
> wireshark plugin) and it would be confusing if that link isn't available
> anywhere.
Sure. v2 will include patches to nbd code as well.
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