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Subject: Re: *at family of syscalls in FreeBSD
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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.