From: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:53:09 +0100
To: jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de, hpa@zytor.com
Cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.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
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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.
...

> 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.

This is what I would concur.

I could live with the meaningless f- prefixes being removed for the POSIX
variant of the interface.

J?rg

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