.. Copyright (c) 2019-2020 Varnish Software AS SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause See LICENSE file for full text of license .. role:: ref(emphasis) .. _vtla: ==================================== VTLA - Varnish Three Letter Acronyms ==================================== Very early in the project, we made a fortunate bargain on eBay, buying up a batch of 676 three letter acronyms, all starting with 'V'. This page tells you what we use them for, if & when we remember to add them... VAV Varnish Arg Vector -- Argv parsing. VBE Varnish Back End -- Code for contacting backends (bin/varnishd/cache_backend.c) VBP Varnish Backend Polling -- Health checks of backends (bin/varnishd/cache_backend_poll.c) VCA Varnish Connection Acceptor -- The code that receives/accepts the TCP connections (bin/varnishd/cache_acceptor.c) VCC VCL to C Compiler -- The code that compiles VCL to C code. (lib/libvcl) VCF Varnish CatFlap VCL Varnish Configuration Language -- The domain-specific programming language used for configuring a varnishd. VCT Varnish CType(3) -- Character classification for RFC2616 and XML parsing. VDD Varnish (Core) Developer Day -- Quarterly invite-only meeting strictly for Varnish core (C) developers, packagers and VMOD hackers. VENC Varnish ENCoding -- base64 functions VEND Varnish ENDianess -- functions to marshall data in specified endianess VEV Varnish EVent -- library functions to implement a simple event-dispatcher. VEXT Varnish Extension -- Shared library loaded into the child process. VGB Varnish Governing Board -- May or may not exist. If you need to ask, you are not on it. VGC Varnish Generated Code -- Code generated by VCC from VCL. VIN Varnish Instance Naming -- Resolution of -n arguments. VLU Varnish Line Up -- library functions to collect stream of bytes into lines for processing. (lib/libvarnish/vlu.c) VPI VCC Private Interface -- functions in varnishd which only VCC is allowed to call. VRE Varnish Regular Expression -- library functions for regular expression based matching and substring replacement. (lib/libvarnish/vre.c) VRT Varnish Run Time -- functions called from compiled code. (bin/varnishd/cache_vrt.c) VRY VaRY -- Related to processing of Vary: HTTP headers. (bin/varnishd/cache_vary.c) VSL Varnish Shared memory Log -- The log written into the shared memory segment for varnish{log,ncsa,top,hist} to see. VSB Varnish string Buffer -- a copy of the FreeBSD "sbuf" library, for safe string handling. VSC Varnish Statistics Counter -- counters for various stats, exposed via varnishapi. VSS Varnish Session Stuff -- library functions to wrap DNS/TCP. (lib/libvarnish/vss.c) VTC Varnish Test Code -- a test-specification for the varnishtest program. VTE Varnish Turbo Encabulator VTLA Varnish Three Letter Acronym -- No rule without an exception. VUG Varnish User Group meeting -- Half-yearly event where the users and developers of Varnish Cache gather to share experiences and plan future development. VWx Varnish Waiter 'x' -- A code module to monitor idle sessions. VWE Varnish Waiter Epoll -- epoll(2) (linux) based waiter module. VWK Varnish Waiter Kqueue -- kqueue(2) (freebsd) based waiter module. VWP Varnish Waiter Poll -- poll(2) based waiter module. VWS Varnish Waiter Solaris -- Solaris ports(2) based waiter module. COPYRIGHT ========= This document is licensed under the same licence as Varnish itself. See LICENCE for details. * Copyright (c) 2019 Varnish Software AS