| # A logo for bpftool [![License: CC BY 4.0][badge]][cc-by-4.0] |
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| Meet **Hannah the Honeyguide**, bpftool's mascot. She is a [greater |
| honeyguide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_honeyguide), but a juvenile |
| one, as can be seen from her yellow throat. We accentuated her shades, because |
| Hannah really wanted to share colors with eBee and Tux (the mascots for eBPF |
| and Linux, respectively). |
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| Living in sub-Saharan Africa, greater honeyguides are known for guiding humans |
| to the nests of wild bees. They use a specific call to attract human attention, |
| then they fly towards the hive. Once the honey hunters have found and harvested |
| the nest, greater honeyguides feed on the remnants of the hive, eating bee eggs |
| and larvae, and even beeswax. |
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| Like a honeyguide, bpftool guides humans towards bees, or to be more accurate, |
| towards BPF objects loaded on a system: after all, one of the primary use cases |
| for bpftool is to load and inspect BPF programs and maps. Don't worry, bpftool |
| will not eat your programs. Although, it could well detach programs and have |
| them removed from the kernel, if you asked it to. Of course, bpftool is a piece |
| of software and cannot "expect" to receive something in return for its |
| services. But think of it this way: for guiding humans to BPF, it feeds on |
| software maintenance and new features. Isn't that some form of mutualism, after |
| all? |
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| Greater honeyguides are also brood parasites: the females lay their eggs in the |
| nests of birds of different species, and the chicks attempt to get rid of any |
| competitors as soon as they hatch. Thankfully, Hannah chose not to fight at |
| birth. As for bpftool? Shhhh, we may well have placed it in a particular |
| penguin's nest, so it could thrive. But we're happy to report that bpftool |
| never pushed any other project out of the Linux repository! |
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| **License:** The logos are licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 |
| International (CC-BY-4.0)][cc-by-4.0]. Reuse them as you want, but please |
| credit the bpftool authors. The logos were designed by Quentin Monnet. The font |
| used to typeset "bpftool" is |
| [Raleway](https://www.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/raleway). |
