Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:13:42 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan) Cc: adrian@staff.psinet.net.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 64 bit number definitions? Message-ID: <199704222013.NAA26933@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970422140745.10264D-100000@panda.hilink.com.au> from "Daniel O'Callaghan" at Apr 22, 97 02:10:35 pm
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> File offsets are described as off_t which is a quad_t, which is a 'long > long'. > > I don't know why off_t is not u_quad_t (unsigned long long). Man lseek and note that the sign bit is used for an error indicator. This is a problem with lseek needing both a success and a value return, and the interface not using a pointer to an off_t to do the value return. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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