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SubjectRe: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter
Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>>Do you have a better proposal for naming the interfaces?
>>>
>>>chownfn maybe. (fd + name)
>>
>>I am not shure if this would match the rules from the Opengroup.
>>Solaris has these interfaces since at least 5 years.
>
> This is not the cdrecord thread so Solaris is a no-go in this very one.
>

FWIW, I think the -at() suffix is just fine, and well established by now
(yes, there is shmat, but the SysV shared memory interfaces are bizarre
to begin with -- hence POSIX shared memory which has real names.)

What I object to is the random, meaningless and misleading application
of the f- suffix.

-hpa
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