Appendix E: Varnish Three Letter AcronymsΒΆ

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)
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.
VEV
Varnish EVent – library functions to implement a simple event-dispatcher.
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)
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.
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.