Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:37:56 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter |
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> > I have noticed that the new ...at() system calls are named in what > appears to be a completely haphazard fashion. In Unix system calls, > an f- prefix means it operates on a file descriptor; the -at suffix (a > prefix would have been more consistent, but oh well) similarly > indicates it operates on a (directory fd, pathname) pair. > shmat operates on dirfd/pathname?
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