Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] blockjob: expose manual-cull property

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 10/03/2017 11:57 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 03/10/2017 05:15, John Snow wrote:
>> For drive-backup and blockdev-backup, expose the manual-cull
>> property, having it default to false. There are no universal
>> creation parameters, so it must be added to each job type that
>> it makes sense for individually.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

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> 
> The verb "cull" is a bit weird.  The only alternative that comes to mind
> though are "reap" (like processes). There's also "join" (like threads),
> but would imply waiting if the jobs hasn't completed yet, and we
> probably don't want it.
> 
> Paolo
> 

Sure, open to suggestions. I think Kevin suggested "delete" which I have
reservations about because of people potentially confusing it with
"cancel" or "complete" -- it does not have the capacity to
end/terminate/finish/complete/cancel a job.

"reap" might be fine. I don't really have any strong preference.

--js