Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call

Nix <[email protected]> Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:21:08 +0100

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On 26 Apr 2012, Roland McGrath verbalised:

>> fileinfoat() perhaps?  I think stat*at() is better, though, as people are
>> used to the stat function family.
>
> Names like that were all I had thought of when I said I hadn't thought of
> any good ones. ;-)

Quite. It's a garden-path function name. "What's a foat and why would I
want to put a file in one?"

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