Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750745AbWBMP5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:57:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750752AbWBMP5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:57:24 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:36258 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745AbWBMP5Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:57:24 -0500 Message-ID: <43F0AC39.3080007@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:56:41 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joerg Schilling CC: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com, austin-group-l@opengroup.org Subject: Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter References: <43EEACA7.5020109@zytor.com> <43F09320.nailKUSI1GXEI@burner> In-Reply-To: <43F09320.nailKUSI1GXEI@burner> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 837 Lines: 25 Joerg Schilling wrote: > 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? > Isn't it obvious? Drop the misleading f- prefixes. -hpa - 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/