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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > > > Do you have a better proposal for naming the interfaces?
> > >
> > > chownfn maybe. (fd + name)
> >
> > I am not shure if this would match the rules from the Opengroup.
> > Solaris has these interfaces since at least 5 years.
>
> This is not the cdrecord thread so Solaris is a no-go in this very one.

FWIW, I think the -at() suffix is just fine, and well established by now 
(yes, there is shmat, but the SysV shared memory interfaces are bizarre 
to begin with -- hence POSIX shared memory which has real names.)

What I object to is the random, meaningless and misleading application 
of the f- suffix.

	-hpa
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