>> > 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?
>
chownfn maybe. (fd + name)
Jan Engelhardt
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