Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:20:41 -0700 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> Cc: arch@freebsd.org, Jilles Tjoelker <jilles@stack.nl> Subject: Re: [PATCH] fadvise(2) system call Message-ID: <4EAF1F39.1090008@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20111031221627.GR2258@hoeg.nl> References: <201110281426.00013.jhb@freebsd.org> <201110311024.07580.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111031190359.GP2258@hoeg.nl> <201110311717.53476.jhb@freebsd.org> <20111031221627.GR2258@hoeg.nl>
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On 10/31/2011 15:16, Ed Schouten wrote: > What if we implement everything using the POSIX naming scheme, but put > this in <fcntl.h>: 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/
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