On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 08:17:26AM +0100, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > I know this is a bike shed, and I'm sorry to be the one to bring it > > up, but can we use the names chmodat, chownat, &c., for our native > > system calls, and just use libc aliases or _BLAH_SOURCE nonsense or > > something for the ridiculous `f' prefix on fchmodat, fchownat, &c.? > > What is the goal? You want to write userland code using chmodat() > instead of fchmodat()?
The wrong names should be exposed in as few places as possible. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
