Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter

[Jan Engelhardt]

>
> I have noticed that the new ...at() system calls are named in what
> appears to be a completely haphazard fashion.  In Unix system calls,
> an f- prefix means it operates on a file descriptor; the -at suffix (a
> prefix would have been more consistent, but oh well) similarly
> indicates it operates on a (directory fd, pathname) pair.
>
shmat operates on dirfd/pathname?


Jan Engelhardt
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