svn commit: r362422 - head/sbin/dump

[Gary Jennejohn]

On Sat, 20 Jun 2020 07:57:29 -0600
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 20, 2020 at 7:27 AM Hans Petter Selasky <hps at selasky.org> wrote:
> 
> > On 2020-06-20 13:10, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:  
> > >> Author: imp
> > >> Date: Sat Jun 20 04:19:17 2020
> > >> New Revision: 362422
> > >> URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/362422
> > >>
> > >> Log:
> > >>    Increase the whimsy in this file by famring dump's work out to  
> > minions. Adjust  
> > >>    variables accordingly. Thankfully, we are able to do this without  
> > additional  
> > >>    banana expenditures.  
> > > This flys in the face of its intent and as a "commit" is more
> > > racially biased than the code was!
> > >  
> >
> > Hi Warner,
> >
> > Maybe a stupid question, but is this the correct meaning or description
> > of minion?
> >
> > https://www.google.com/search?q=minions
> >
> > minion; plural noun: minions
> >
> >      a follower or underling of a powerful person, especially a servile
> > or unimportant one.
> >      "he gets oppressed minions like me to fob them off"
> >
> > "Minion" is still a person, like "slave" is, so I must say I agree with
> > Rodney about this, I don't see how this makes it any better? Can you
> > explain?
> >  
> 
> For me, Minions come from the Despicable Me movies and sequels. They work
> for Gru, who pays them for their services. They love Bananas and often do
> crazy things for a banana. They work for Gru willingly. They are free to
> leave at any time. They are sad at the prospect of Gru having to lay them
> off.
> 
> Minions are also, as you point out, employed by the powerful to accomplish
> things. Key word here is 'employed'. Servile doesn't mean 'involuntary
> servitude' but rather 'an excessive willingness to please.' Underling means
> only that them are below them on the org chart. There's no inherent
> implication of an abusive relationship, per se, though that happens as in
> any power relationship between people.
> 
> And the extensive searching I did before the commit showed no complaints
> about the movies, or that this term had some coded, racist history. Or any
> other coded history that's problematic. Or any overt history for that
> matter.
> 
> SaltStack uses it as their name for agents that carry out tasks, for
> example.
> 
> So what am I missing?
> 

Why not simply use sub-processes?  After all, that's exactly what the "minion
processes" are.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn