From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 22:20:44 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 01D13106564A; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:20:44 +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 DFB2414EC4A; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:20:41 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4EAF1F39.1090008@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:20:41 -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> <201110311024.07580.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111031190359.GP2258@hoeg.nl> <201110311717.53476.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111031221627.GR2258@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <20111031221627.GR2258@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 22:20:44 -0000 On 10/31/2011 15:16, Ed Schouten wrote: > What if we implement everything using the POSIX naming scheme, but put > this in : My concern about that is that we're teaching people who start learning programming with our sources to do non-standard stuff. I don't see anyone in this thread saying that we should go back and change things that we already have. But if we're going to implement a new thing, giving it the standard name (however ugly, and I agree that it's ugly) is almost certainly the right way to go. Doug -- 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/