From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Joerg Schilling <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
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:12:20 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F21D84.8010907@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0602141907030.32490@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan Engelhardt 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.
>
> This is not the cdrecord thread so Solaris is a no-go in this very one.
>
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.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-14 18:12 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
2006-02-14 18:07 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-14 18:12 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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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