From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent+gcc@vinc17.org>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: "file name" vs "filename"
Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 15:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180407003901.GB8716@zira.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1804021210580.14431@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 2018-04-02 12:11:33 +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Apr 2018, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
>
> > And now to the most important question of all. ;-) Should we use
> > "file name" or "filename" when referring to the name of a file?
>
> See the GNU Coding Standards:
>
> Please do not use the term ``pathname'' that is used in Unix
> documentation; use ``file name'' (two words) instead. We use the term
> ``path'' only for search paths, which are lists of directory names.
IMHO, "file name" is bad as it is ambiguous if its goal is to mean
either "filename" (in the POSIX sense) or "pathname". At least,
"filename" and "pathname" have been standardized by POSIX.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-07 0:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-01 20:16 Gerald Pfeifer
2018-04-01 20:56 ` Joel Sherrill
2018-04-01 22:55 ` Sandra Loosemore
2018-04-03 23:06 ` Martin Sebor
2018-04-02 12:11 ` Joseph Myers
2018-04-08 15:18 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2023-04-14 22:00 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2023-04-17 18:51 ` James K. Lowden
2023-04-18 11:55 ` Richard Kenner
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