Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 17:47:01 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *at family of syscalls in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20070604164701.GA32750@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20070604162430.GA76813@freebsd.org> References: <20070604162430.GA76813@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:24:30PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: > ie. exactly the same API as Linux have with the exception of naming them sanely, ie. instead > for example fchownat() we have chownat() because it does not operate on a fd but on a path. > I am not sure about compatibility but we can always introduce a weak reference like fchownat() -> > chownat(). FYI: those names originate on Solaris, and are proposed for an addition to Posix/SuS. It's probably a better idea to keep them the same on all operating systems instead of creating articial differences.
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