From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de,
drepper@redhat.com, austin-group-l@opengroup.org
Subject: Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:35:50 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F214F6.1070206@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43F20C95.nailMWZULDLNF@burner>
Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>Surely you're not suggesting that TOG's job is to rubber-stamp bad
>>Solaris decisions...
>
> Are you interested in forcing Solaris to change all interfaces?
>
In this case, I think it would be entirely appropriate. It's hardly a
hardship to maintain the legacy names for backwards compatibility; since
those names are nonsensical it is unlikely they'll ever want to be
claimed, in which case they can be maintained indefinitely.
However, I would find it much, much worse if names that are *actively
misleading and confusing* to the programmer would be included in an
international standard and therefore forced upon the rest of the world
forever.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-12 3:33 The naming of at()s is a difficult matter H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-12 10:37 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-12 17:42 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-13 14:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2006-02-13 15:56 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-14 8:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-14 15:09 ` Joerg Schilling
2006-02-14 15:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-14 16:13 ` Matthew Frost
2006-02-14 17:00 ` Joerg Schilling
2006-02-14 17:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-02-14 18:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-14 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-14 18:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-14 18:53 ` Joerg Schilling
2006-02-14 18:51 ` Joerg Schilling
2006-02-12 14:41 ` Jim Meyering
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