integer types, sys calls, and stdio

[Henry Spencer]

> An alternate definition might be:
> 
> 	daddr_t lseek(fildes, offset, whence)
> 	daddr_t offset;
> 
> where "daddr_t", defined in <sys/types.h>, is machine-dependent.

Actually, there already is a type specifically for offsets into files:
off_t.  Unfortunately, it's not nearly as widely used as it should be.
You have a choice of "doing it right" and having a fair bit of work to
do on old programs, or giving in to practicality and using "long".

Lamentably, the current draft of the ANSI C standard uses "long" for
fseek() and ftell().
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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