Flags for fchmodat()

Posted Jul 30, 2023 3:08 UTC (Sun) by willy (subscriber, #9762)
In reply to: Flags for fchmodat() by mirabilos
Parent article: Flags for fchmodat()

You can make a similar argument that wait4 was actually "wait for"

Flags for fchmodat()

Posted Jul 30, 2023 3:20 UTC (Sun) by mirabilos (subscriber, #84359) [Link] (2 responses)

Right, fully agreed there.

I’m not too much of a fan of puns based on specific pronunciations of things, especially if they go unexplained, but it’s probably obvious to english speakers.

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Posted Jul 30, 2023 3:25 UTC (Sun) by willy (subscriber, #9762) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm kind of neutral on puns. If they're not needed to make sense (and dup2/wait4 are examples of that), I don't mind. The Lemmings icon of a pair of paws to mean pause is unforgivable.

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Posted Jul 30, 2023 9:23 UTC (Sun) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

But puns like that is part of "the Unix way". Go back to the early versions, and Unix is absolutely full of them.

My favourite example is the mutt man page - mutts (dogs) collect mail hence the name, and "mutts don't have bugs, they have fleas ..."

Cheers,
Wol