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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 10:08:58 +0100
Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:

> 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

It seemed like the best of the alternatives proposed here: 
https://inclusivenaming.org/word-lists/tier-1/abort/

Recommended Replacements
	User-Initiated Termination
	Force quit
	Cancel
	System-Initiated Termination
	Fail
	Close (app, program, connection)
	End
	Halt
	Hard stop
	Stop (something you triggered)

I don't think the rollback semantics are implied by either word.
They should be spelled out more though.