"H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]> 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.
...
> 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.
This is what I would concur.
I could live with the meaningless f- prefixes being removed for the POSIX
variant of the interface.
Jörg
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