Hi Elliott, On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 09:19:56AM -0700, enh wrote: > > I think a consistent use of operation instead of option would improve > > things. We just need to make sure it's consistent. > > i certainly like that idea philosophically --- i actually tried to use > the minimal number of different words when naming arguments in > bionic's headers, to minimize the number of words folks who don't > speak english would need to learn. > > looking at man7, i note that ioctl() and ptrace() have "request". > fcntl() has "command". flock() has "operation". Hmm, interesting. I think operation would be the most accurate one. What do you think? Should we uniformize by using operation in all three? Cheers, Alex -- <https://www.alejandro-colomar.es/>
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