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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fstatat64 support
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 20:43:05 -0800 (PST)
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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