3 messages, 3 authors, 2012-04-26 · open the first message on its own page
From: Roland McGrath <hidden>
Date: 2012-04-19 16:32:38
I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor choice of name. There is precedent for that function name with different meaning in the userland APIs. (It's a moderately useless meaning inherited from SVR4, but regardless overloading a name previously used is unwise.) Thanks, Roland
From: Paul Eggert <hidden>
Date: 2012-04-19 21:51:18
On 04/19/2012 09:32 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor choice of name.
In AIX 7.1 the (similar) function is called statxat instead of xstat. The API isn't exactly the same, but it's the same basic idea. Might be worth looking at, not merely to see whether the API should be the same, but also to borrow good ideas even if not. http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/aix/v7r1/topic/com.ibm.aix.basetechref/doc/basetrf2/statx.htm
From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date: 2012-04-26 13:54:15
Roland McGrath [off-list ref] wrote:
I have no comment on the functionality. But "xstat" is probably a poor choice of name. There is precedent for that function name with different meaning in the userland APIs. (It's a moderately useless meaning inherited from SVR4, but regardless overloading a name previously used is unwise.)
I've no particular attachment to the name 'xstat'. If you'd prefer 'statx' I could go for that. David