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

[Joerg Schilling <schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de>]

Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> 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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