Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Feb 2006 09:42:36 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter |
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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 *...
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