From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753862AbaDUSjt (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:39:49 -0400 Received: from mail-ee0-f49.google.com ([74.125.83.49]:49220 "EHLO mail-ee0-f49.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751238AbaDUSjq (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Apr 2014 14:39:46 -0400 Message-ID: <535565EF.5090300@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 20:39:43 +0200 From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: mtk.manpages@gmail.com, Rich Felker , Jeff Layton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, samba-technical@lists.samba.org, Ganesha NFS List , "Carlos O'Donell" , libc-alpha , "Stefan (metze) Metzmacher" Subject: Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks References: <1398087935-14001-1-git-send-email-jlayton@redhat.com> <20140421140246.GB26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <535529FA.8070709@gmail.com> <20140421161004.GC26358@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <5355644C.7000801@gmail.com> <20140421183439.GA17879@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20140421183439.GA17879@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/