From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@samba.org>,
"Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 11:01:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53555CF0.8030405@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140421124508.4f2c9ca7@tlielax.poochiereds.net>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 18:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-21 13:45 [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 14:02 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 14:23 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 16:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-21 16:42 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 17:03 ` [Nfs-ganesha-devel] " Frank Filz
2014-04-21 18:20 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 16:10 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 16:45 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 16:45 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 18:01 ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2014-04-21 18:43 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 18:18 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 18:32 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 18:48 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 19:16 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 20:22 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 18:32 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 18:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-21 18:39 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 18:46 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 19:39 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 19:55 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-21 21:15 ` Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
2014-04-22 4:54 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27 4:51 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-27 9:14 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27 9:16 ` flock() and NFS [Was: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks] Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27 10:04 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-27 10:04 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-27 11:11 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27 11:11 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-27 21:28 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-27 21:28 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-29 9:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-29 9:07 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-29 9:24 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-29 9:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-29 9:53 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-29 11:34 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-29 11:34 ` Jeff Layton
2014-04-29 12:20 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-28 10:23 ` [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks Jeff Layton
2014-04-28 10:46 ` NeilBrown
2014-04-21 18:48 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-21 18:51 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 19:04 ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-04-21 19:06 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-04-21 20:10 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 20:20 ` Rich Felker
2014-04-21 14:25 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2014-04-21 16:05 ` Stefan (metze) Metzmacher
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