Rename creat to create.

[sunfishcode]

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."

• https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson#Quotes

[sbc100]

Ha!

To be fair I think he as refering to the creat function not the O_CREAT flag.

If you are going to make this change why not also spell "exclusive" and "truncate" correctly too?

[sunfishcode]

I'm ok either way there. We do have a lot of other abbreviations, like inval, isdir, and so on, so if you want, there are a lot more we could consider here. I think creat just feels especially gratuitous because it's only saving one letter. And Ken Thompson would seem to agree ;-).

[devsnek]

🎉 we could probably untruncate trunc and rename excl to exclusive too. they're the same length as directory.

[joshtriplett]

👍

The "creat" abbreviation does need to exist in libc and similar libraries, to avoid gratuitously breaking compatibility. However, we don't need that abbreviation in the native syscall layer.

[sunfishcode]

I think another factor here is something like an uncanny valley effect -- creat just looks like a typo rather than an abbreviation.

In any case, we seem to have consensus for renaming creat at least, so let's do it!