From: Jos Backus <jos@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T13:00:28+09:00
Subject: Re: [patch] Obtaining mode information on an IO object

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:47:48AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Thu, 9 Dec 2004 10:01:53 +0900,
> James Britt wrote in [ruby-core:03925]:
> > What is "accmode" suppose to be indicate? "Access mode?"  If that's the 
> > case, can it just be called "access_mode" ?
> > 
> > Or is there a requirement for consistency with some historical Unix 
> > terseness?
> 
> Yes, it came from O_ACCMODE.
> cf. http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/fcntl.h.html
> 
> And ruby also has it.
>   $ ruby -rfcntl -e 'p Fcntl::O_ACCMODE'
>   3

Hm, then again that in turn is a good argument for sticking with `accmode', as
it conforms to a known standard at least. Plus it's not too cryptic, is it?

Either way, I'm happy :)

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