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> Giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition God, this is so true! I seriously think that world would be much better already if we w
by krick 12y ago
> Giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition
God, this is so true! I seriously think that world would be much better already if we would just rename many of well-established binaries and C-functions to more-intuitive, better convention. Even without changing APIs that much (which would be great too, of course).
- cbd1984 12y agoGood luck with that. We can't even give the creat() system call an 'e' at the end. (Not that it should be used much these days; the 'creat() then open()' idiom is a race condition waiting to happen, so 'open()' has grown the ability to create-and-open in one atomic operation. That seems to handle most of the file creation that Unix programs need to do.)
- smorrow 12y agocreat was always create-and-open.