Re: The naming of at()s is a difficult matter

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> > I have noticed that the new ...at() system calls are named in what
> > appears to be a completely haphazard fashion.  In Unix system calls,
> > an f- prefix means it operates on a file descriptor; the -at suffix (a
> > prefix would have been more consistent, but oh well) similarly
> > indicates it operates on a (directory fd, pathname) pair.
>
> shmat operates on dirfd/pathname?

Convention collision.  They unfortunately happen (yet another reason the 
-at convention was ill choosen); another pretty bad clash is the f- 
prefix for use on file descriptors versus use on FILE *...

	-hpa
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