mpi i/o naming inconsistency

David Taylor (taylor@Think.COM)
Wed, 23 Oct 96 09:32:38 EDT

If we look at the file-control replacements:

get-view
set-view
get-size
get-file-size
get-file-extent
get-position
get-position-shared
file-get-amode
file-get-comm
get-file-info
set-file-info
get-atomicity
set-atomicity

There are some naming inconsistencies. Some have 'file' as part of the
name, others don't. Some are file-get-... others are get-file-....

If there is some reasoning behind the names, I'd like to see it spelled
out in the document; if there is none, then can we pick some conventions
and clean it up?

I think the names would be easier to remember if there was some
consistency.

Thanks.