Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:56:41 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter |
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Joerg Schilling wrote: > Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> 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? > > > Do you have a better proposal for naming the interfaces? >
Isn't it obvious? Drop the misleading f- prefixes.
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