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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > 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?
>
>
> Do you have a better proposal for naming the interfaces?

Isn't it obvious?  Drop the misleading f- prefixes.

	-hpa
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