Hello Michael, I found different terms for parameters that refer to a same thing in different functions (usually a '[const] char *'): - filename - file - path - pathname - Maybe others; I don't know For 'FILE *' we have more or less the same, although this one is much more consistent (>90% use 'stream'): - stream - streamp - s - fp - file - filehandle - A few others in specific cases Also for strings, there are - s - str - string - maybe others There are probably other cases with the same problem. I think these parameters should have a more consistent naming. But which names should we use? I tend to use short names such as fname, fd, s, ... but I don't know if you may prefer longer names for documentation purposes. What would you do about it? Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/
