Naming things and the "busy" confusion

[Dridi Boukelmoune]

On Tue, Oct 7, 2025 at 10:56 AM Poul-Henning Kamp <phk at phk.freebsd.dk> wrote:
>
> As tempted as I am to go "I have UTF-8 and I'm not afraid to use
> it" and rename to "écluse", I personally see it more as some sort
> of distribution mechanism than as a flow-control mechanism.

I talked about coordination, not flow control. The principle is two
parts of a canal operating at different levels (client vs backend) and
the sluice coordinating the transit of boats (body bytes) from one
level to the other. Sure that involve some amounts of flow control,
but that's just means to an end.