Rename creat to create.#199
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Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes
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I'm ok either way there. We do have a lot of other abbreviations, like |
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🎉 we could probably untruncate trunc and rename excl to exclusive too. they're the same length as directory.
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👍 The "creat" abbreviation does need to exist in libc and similar libraries, to avoid gratuitously breaking compatibility. However, we don't need that abbreviation in the native syscall layer. |
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I think another factor here is something like an uncanny valley effect -- In any case, we seem to have consensus for renaming |
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes
Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." - https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes
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Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were
redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."