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

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Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> 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?

Jörg

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