Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751784AbWBMOKo (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751786AbWBMOKn (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:43 -0500 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:56810 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751784AbWBMOKh (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:10:37 -0500 From: Joerg Schilling Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:09:36 +0100 To: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, hpa@zytor.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, austin-group-l@opengroup.org Subject: Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter Message-ID: <43F09320.nailKUSI1GXEI@burner> References: <43EEACA7.5020109@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.2 8/15/04 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1042 Lines: 25 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? Do you have a better proposal for naming the interfaces? J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/