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SubjectRe: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>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?
>

Convention collision. They unfortunately happen (yet another reason the
-at convention was ill choosen); another pretty bad clash is the f-
prefix for use on file descriptors versus use on FILE *...

-hpa
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