[unios] Terminology

[Anders Petersson]

From: Anders Petersson <anders.petersson@mbox320.swipnet.se>

>From: Faustino E Osuna <osuna@CTC.Net>
>>From: Anders Petersson <anders.petersson@mbox320.swipnet.se>

>>PS. We need a good terminology about this!!
>
>I second that motion : |.
>
>This is what I propose ;)
>
>Alien-Object:
>    Like you mentioned, objects not found within the system tree, meaning
>objects from other machines

Yes, could do... even if such objects also will appear on the local system,
as simulated by the network module (but not different for everybody else).

>Grandparent-Object:
>    n*Grandparent-Object - n = Generation (1*Grandparent) 1st generation
>grandparent...etc.

I don't quite get it, maybe "grandparent" can be all parents in a straight
line towards the root.

>Parent-Object:

Or just "Parent".

>Grandchild-Object:
>    n*Grandchild-Object (Just like Grandparent);

Everything deeper than one level under the current object, I'd say.

>Child-Object:

Or "child".

>Sibling-Object:

Or "sibling".

>Cousin-Object:
>    Just as implied, objects from the sibling of the parent

To be practical, I see no real use for such a term. "Sibling" could be
useful, thou.

>Foriegn-Object:
>    Object not in the immediate family, anything other than the Grandparent,
>Parent, Sibling, and Cousin.

A "foreign object" for me more suggests an object on another system.
"Unrelated object" is an alternative.

Here comes some more term suggestions:

User root: The object that represents an user. For the user, it will
effectively look like a root.

System root, alternatively super root: The true root of the system.

Systree, short for system tree: Referring to the whole system tree, of course.

Sub-tree: The tree under an arbitrary object.

Finally, what do you think of the term "OID server"? Myself I think it's
not very good...

binEng


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