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?
> >
>
> 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.
Jörg
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