On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
Taylor R Campbell <campbell+netbsd-tech-k...@mumble.net> wrote:
I know this is a bike shed, and I'm sorry to be the one to bring it
up, but can we use the names chmodat, chownat, &c., for our native
system calls, and just use libc aliases or _BLAH_SOURCE nonsense or
something for the ridiculous `f' prefix on fchmodat, fchownat, &c.?
What is the goal? You want to write userland code using chmodat()
instead of fchmodat()?
I want the names to follow a clear and easily-documented pattern.
Takes a name Takes a fd, not a name Takes a name and an "at" fd
(prepend "f") (append "at")
------------ ---------------------- ---------------------------
open - (fopen is different) openat
link - linkat
unlink - unlinkat
rename - renameat
chdir fchdir chdirat
mkdir fmkdir mkdirat
mkfifo fmkfifo mkfifoat
utimens futimens utimensat
chmod fchmod chmodat (not fchmodat)
chown fchown chownat (not fchownat)
stat fstat statat (not fstatat)
access - accessat (not faccessat)
However, I also want the inconsistent POSIX names to be provided.
I don't know a good way of satisfying both goals.
--apb (Alan Barrett)
