From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fstatat64 support
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:43:05 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dsh5kp$bn$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 43EA5CCD.7030605@redhat.com
Followup to: <43EA5CCD.7030605@redhat.com>
By author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > please remove the new from the syscall name. just sys_fstatat64
>
> I use that to show the lineage. We use newfstat etc for the current
> generation of interfaces. Using fstatat would be irritating IMO.
>
Eh?
We don't use sys_newfstat for the current generation, we use
sys_fstat64.
This would be the "at" version of sys_fstat64, so the only sane name
of this system call is sys_fstatat64.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-10 4:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-08 20:08 [PATCH] fstatat64 support Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-08 20:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-02-08 21:04 ` Ulrich Drepper
2006-02-10 4:43 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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