From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, 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>
Cc: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:10:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53557B39.8080208@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140421190659.GA10884@infradead.org>
On 04/21/2014 09:06 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:04:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
>> I think what you mean is that there is no need that we expose the name
>> "struct file". My point is that "struct file" is actually a much
>> _better_ name than "file description". Heck, "open file object" would
>> be better name than "file description".
>
> Open file description is what all current standards use. I'm pretty
> sure really old ones just used open file,
("open file description" was already in SUSv1 (1994))
> but struct file has never
> been used in an API description.
Exactly.
> Introducing it now entirely out of
> context is not helpful at all.
In principle, I agree, though it might be helpful for some
people to mention this term in a side-note in, say, open(2).
Cheers,
Michael
--
Michael Kerrisk
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 20:10 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)
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) [this message]
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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