Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:01:20 -0700 | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks |
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On 04/21/2014 09:45 AM, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:10:04 -0400 > Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> wrote: >> I'm well aware of that. The problem is that the proposed API is using >> the two-letter abbreviation FD, which ALWAYS means file descriptor and >> NEVER means file description (in existing usage) to mean file >> description. That's what's wrong. >> > > Fair enough. Assuming we kept "file-description locks" as a name, what > would you propose as new macro names?
F_OFD_...? F_OPENFILE_...?
If you said "file description" to me, I'd assume you made a typo. If, on the other hand, you said "open file" or "open file description" or, ugh, "struct file", I think I'd understand.
--Andy
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