From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 20:49:08 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30F14106566C; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:49:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E49155743; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:48:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EAF09B0.8050603@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 13:48:48 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20111001 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ed Schouten References: <201110281426.00013.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111029214057.GB90408@stack.nl> <201110311024.07580.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111031190359.GP2258@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20111031190359.GP2258@hoeg.nl> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Jilles Tjoelker Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise(2) system call X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:49:08 -0000 On 10/31/2011 12:03, Ed Schouten wrote: > Hi John, > > * John Baldwin , 20111031 15:24: >> Existing applications use the name and I find it ugly. (I also wish we >> had a plain fallocate() instead of just posix_fallocate().) However, if >> other folks prefer not having the wrapper I could update it to use the >> posix_* name. > > I agree with Jilles. It's easier to introduce namespace pollution than > it is to get rid of it afterwards. If the function is called > posix_fadvise(), people should just use that. > > People are constantly complaining about `Linuxisms' when they want to > port software to FreeBSD. The word `BSDism' should remain an euphemism. > ;-) +1 to both points. :) -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/