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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: 64 bit number definitions?
To: danny@panda.hilink.com.au (Daniel O'Callaghan)
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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
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