From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
Ganesha NFS List <nfs-ganesha-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
"Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" <metze@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:39:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <535565EF.5090300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140421183439.GA17879@infradead.org>
On 04/21/2014 08:34 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 08:32:44PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote:
>> So, can you *please* answer this question: what do you call (i.e.,
>> what everyday technical language term do use for) the thing
>> that sits between a file descriptor and an i-node?
>
> An open file.
Not an unambiguous, widely understood term.
--
Michael Kerrisk
Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 18:39 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
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) [this message]
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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