Subject: Re: [PATCH] sftp: Add support for fsync (OpenSSH extension).

Re: [PATCH] sftp: Add support for fsync (OpenSSH extension).

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 16:03:07 +0200 (CEST)

On Tue, 16 Apr 2013, Peter Stuge wrote:

> I strongly dislike the absolute disconnect between the extremely generic
> name libssh2_sftp_fsync() and the very opposite name fsync_at_openssh.com -
> unless libssh2 will in the future use a heuristic to determine which actual
> extension to use. I don't want that.

I do.

If there would appear another way to fsync in a future, we can introduce
either a way for libssh2 to figure out by itself what method to use, or we
provide an API for the application to select method.

> At a minimum, I'd like a follow up patch which changes the API name to
> libssh2_sftp_fsync_openssh_com() or such..

Why do think this is necessary? I don't think we do a service to our users by
exposing the underlying protocol naming in our function names. I also suspect
that we won't be flooded by lots of other fsync variations either...

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se
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