[PATCH 01/14] jobstats: change jobstats_abort to jobstats_cancel

[Bruce Richardson]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 07:52:36PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The term abort is on the "Replace now" list of words.
> Use cancel instead.
> 
I see cancel generally being used as a replacement throughout this
patchset, but I wonder if the use of th term could be confusing as it
doesn't strictly match the term "abort" at least to my mind.

When an operation is aborted, (to me anyway) it generally means that the
operation is just stopped at whatever point it is at, and nothing more is
done. However, when an operation is cancelled, that would imply to me that
the operation is not only stopped, but whatever tasks were already done by
that operation are undone. Would others share this understanding? If so, we
should make the rollback/no-rollback behaviour clear.

/Bruce