Ping. On 3/4/21 3:50 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote: > 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/
