Charles-François Natali <neolo...@free.fr> added the comment:

> I think there is a value to use the very same function names in the 
> posix module as in the posix API.

It would still be the case, except that they'd live in distinct submodule.

> The posix API (and C in general) is also flat, and uses the prefix 
> convention.

That's because C doesn't have namespaces: it's certainly due to this 
limitation, and not a design choice (and when you think about it, there is a 
namespace hierarchy, in the header files: <sys/sched.h>, <attr/xatr.h>, etc.).

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