Re: [PATCH] fstatat64 support

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <43EA5CCD.7030605@xxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Ulrich Drepper <drepper@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > please remove the new from the syscall name.  just sys_fstatat64
> 
> I use that to show the lineage.  We use newfstat etc for the current
> generation of interfaces.  Using fstatat would be irritating IMO.
> 

Eh?

We don't use sys_newfstat for the current generation, we use
sys_fstat64.

This would be the "at" version of sys_fstat64, so the only sane name
of this system call is sys_fstatat64.

	-hpa

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