[ampersandy]

Is there a particular reason the Linux kernel favors names like `somaxconn` instead of `socket_max_connections`? It seems like a rather straightforward improvement for readability; so, why are shorter, compressed names preferred?

[codys]

This particular name originates from BSD 4.2 [1], which was released in 1983. (For some context, GCC 1.0 is from 1987, pcc was used to build BSD 4.2. The first Linux release was 1991).

1: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/0f4556f...

[mehrdadn]

That would make it too easy to understand.