From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22122 invoked by alias); 24 Feb 2012 13:10:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 18471 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Feb 2012 13:10:07 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:09:53 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 43C0E2C006D; Fri, 24 Feb 2012 14:09:51 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 13:10:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add scandirat(3) Message-ID: <20120224130951.GA19218@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <1329864298.3540.2.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1329864298.3540.2.camel@YAAKOV04> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q1/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 On Feb 21 16:44, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > scandirat(3) was added in glibc-2.15[1] and has supposedly been proposed > for addition to POSIX.1[2]. Patch attached. > > > Yaakov > > [1] http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob_plain;f=NEWS > [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.man/2419 > [...] Is it just me or do others have the same feeling that the function name is a bit... unfortunate. When I read this patch proposal the first time I thought something like "scan-di-rat? What the heck does *that* mean? A couple of days later I still tend to pronounce it "scan-di-rat" rather than "scan-dir-at", and I have serious doubts that I will adapt... Corinna