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Posted Jul 12, 2025 23:56 UTC (Sat) by SLi (subscriber, #53131)
Parent article: SFrame-based stack unwinding for the kernel

> At least, ORC hadn't been adapted to user space until the SFrame project (which truly needs an amusing Lord-of-the-Rings-inspired name) was launched.

Indeed. What can we come up with that doesn't sound completely stupid?

Smeagol? Shelob (since it unwinds tangled stacks)? Framewise Gamgee? Framebeard? BackAgain?

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Posted Jul 13, 2025 5:25 UTC (Sun) by magfr (subscriber, #16052) [Link] (2 responses)

Find a nice backronym from ENT or just bite the bullet and call it MAN.

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Posted Jul 14, 2025 7:45 UTC (Mon) by taladar (subscriber, #68407) [Link] (1 responses)

I guess ENT would not work that well for a format more compact than DWARF.

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Posted Jul 14, 2025 23:32 UTC (Mon) by himi (subscriber, #340) [Link]

Considering how (unintentionally?) ironic the name "DWARF" is, ENT seems perfectly reasonable for something designed to be compact and concise.

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Posted Jul 13, 2025 9:12 UTC (Sun) by excors (subscriber, #95769) [Link] (2 responses)

As this is an attempt to spread ORC into the wider world, I think the obvious answer is the word for "to rule them all" in Black Speech (the common language of Orcs and other servants of Mordor, which was itself designed to solve the problem of mutually-unintelligible dialects between tribes and help them coordinate more efficiently, just as SFrame is doing): DURBATULÛK, or Debugging Userspace Reliably By A Table of Unwinding-Location Ûseful Knowledge.

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Posted Jul 13, 2025 10:27 UTC (Sun) by SLi (subscriber, #53131) [Link]

I approve.

CONFIG_DURBATULUK=y

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Posted Jul 13, 2025 17:16 UTC (Sun) by jemarch (subscriber, #116773) [Link]

It's spelled s-f-r-a-m-e but it's pronounced DURBATULUK

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Posted Jul 13, 2025 21:27 UTC (Sun) by Sesse (subscriber, #53779) [Link]

SFrame obviously stands for Saruman-Frame, so we're already covered.