From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Oct 19 22:14:21 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA06772 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:14:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles150.castles.com [208.214.165.150]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA06759 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (LOCALHOST [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA00306; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:17:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199810200517.WAA00306@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Greg Lehey cc: Mike Smith , FreeBSD Chat Subject: Re: Need a name for the vinum daemon In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:32:04 +0930." <19981020143204.Q433@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 22:17:43 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >> Now I find I need a daemon to do some work that requires process > >> context. What should I call the daemon? There should be all sorts of > >> word plays on the devil drink and such, but I can't think of anything > >> appropriate. If anybody can suggest a good name, preferably Latin, > >> I'll give you a bottle of wine (or at least a Vinum core dump :-) > > > > Bacchus, of course. > > It's certainly getting the votes, isn't it? It's definitely the obvious choice. > What's wrong with "winemaking"? Are you trying to think of oenology? > That's really the study rather than the practice, not a problem in > itself, but it's Greek, and the Americans appear not to know it at > all. That's it. I think a daemon called "oenologist" has a lot going for it: - It can be creatively mispronounced. - A user seeing it in the process listing is going to be completely befuddled. - It's quite subtle without being impenetrable (like the 3-way vinum play). -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message