> An underscore does not separate functionality.

An underscore is the implementor's namespace.  We should not be promoting
interfaces with leading underscores except in extreme circumstances (e.g.,
significant amounts of existing code would be broken).

 > Where do you see a conceptional difference?

e.g., I trust you agree that "ioctl(int fd, _FIOSATIME, const struct
timeval *)" would look a bit out-of-place on the utimes(2) manpage.
That's what I'm referring to.

 > You could add a futimes().....

Yes.

-- 
meem
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