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Re: [PATCH] Add scandirat(3)
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at gmail dot com>
- To: The Sweet and Crunchy Cygwin-Talk Maiming Lits <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 15:46:37 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add scandirat(3)
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On 24/02/2012 13:09, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> 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...
'slike a sugar mouse, but bigger. 'scandirat.
cheers,
DaveK