From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] splice support
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:20:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060329172057.301a41ff.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <442B2EB2.4040401@garzik.org>
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > The "destination first" convention is insane. It only makes sense for
> > assignments, and these aren't assignments.
>
> I agree.
>
> But alas, sendfile(2) is defined as destination first:
>
> > ssize_t sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, off_t *offset, size_t count)
>
> which begs the question, do we want to be different from sendfile(2),
> and confuse a segment of the programmer populace? :)
>
strcpy, memcpy...
Obviously copy(from, to) is the sane way to do things, but yeah, I _think_
a C programmer would expect copy(to, from).
I don't think it matters much at all, really. If they get it backwards
they'll notice pretty quickly ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-30 1:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-29 12:28 Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 13:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-29 13:27 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:49 ` Nathan Scott
2006-03-29 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-29 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 6:17 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 1:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-30 1:20 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2006-03-30 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 3:10 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:16 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 7:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:50 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:51 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:15 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:00 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 13:53 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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2005-12-19 9:16 Jens Axboe
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