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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10 of 23] libxl: separate forced and	non-forced	d
 
Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 10 of 23] libxl: separate forced 
and non-forced    device remove"):
> The original rationale for the name was that the libxl_TYPE_destroy
> functions only free the content of the datastructure but not the
> datastructure itself and that calling such a function free() would be
> potentially confusing.
Hmmm.
> On the other hand not being able to use "destroy" as a term for things
> related domain destruction is a pain too.
Yes.
> Thesaurus.com suggests various things for destroy and/or free which we
> could use for the type destructors. There's lots of fun sounding ones
> ("bollix up", "enfranchise") but "release" perhaps?
"dispose" ?  "discard" ?  "dealloc[ate]" ?  "abandon" ?
"Release" sounds like it refers to some kind of lock or reservation.
Ian.
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