Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:06:59 -0700 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] locks: rename file-private locks to file-description locks |
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On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 03:04:10PM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > I think what you mean is that there is no need that we expose the name > "struct file". My point is that "struct file" is actually a much > _better_ name than "file description". Heck, "open file object" would > be better name than "file description".
Open file description is what all current standards use. I'm pretty sure really old ones just used open file, but struct file has never been used in an API description. Introducing it now entirely out of context is not helpful at all.
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