Re: PROPOSAL: API for device locking library.

[Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:

>         pid_t   islock_dev      ( const char * devname);
>         pid_t   lock_dev        ( const char * devname);
>         pid_t   relock_dev      ( const char * devname, pid_t old_pid);
>         pid_t   unlock_dev      ( const char * devname, pid_t pid);

This is obviously a nit, but I'd like to see these renamed to have the
dev at the beginning; nearly all system APIs use a prefix to keep the
namespace clean rather then a suffix (i.e. sig*, gtk*, Xt*, FD*), and it 
would be nice to be consistent.

Erik

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