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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:31:45 +0100
From: Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl>
To: Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Removal of kern_xxx() no-at variants.
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:01:24PM -0330, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> A thought:

> If we're only going to have one of {kern_open,kern_openat}, might it 
> make sense to keep the shorter name rather than the longer one? 
> kern_openat as a name seems meaningful to me only if we're trying to 
> disambiguate it from an also-existent-but-different-meaning kern_open.

The name kern_openat makes sense in that the functionality is like the
openat() system call.

-- 
Jilles Tjoelker