Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422730AbWBNSMz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:12:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422741AbWBNSMz (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:12:55 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:21225 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422730AbWBNSMy (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:12:54 -0500 Message-ID: <43F21D84.8010907@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:12:20 -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: Jan Engelhardt CC: Joerg Schilling , 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> <43F1F2C2.nailMWZGOQDYR@burner> In-Reply-To: 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: 878 Lines: 24 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 - 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/