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From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2018, Ed Maste wrote:

> On 20 March 2018 at 04:19, Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> It is preferable to have a well-chosen (short...) prefix.  The linux
>> emulator mostly uses l_ for internal names.  That is a bit too short
>> for external names.
>
> l_ is too short. The only reasonable alternative is probably lnx_ but
> saving two characters seems does not seem worth it.

lx_ is reasonable.  /sys currently has 1321 lines matching lx_ and 0
lines matching '[^A-Za-z_]lx_', but 865 lines matching lnx_ (mostly
for qlnxe(4)).

Bruce