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See also: creat()

https://linux.die.net/man/3/creat

It goes way back to the murky beginnings of Unix.

Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."



That's not quite the same thing as it's not so much a misspelling as a result of being restricted to five chars. (on some certain system the details of which doesn't interest me)

But I do wish they had used one abbreviation for control rather than two - fcntl vs ioctl.


Probably fuctl was deemed undignified, and icntl unhelpful.


fnctl

Naming is hard.




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