lseek(2) return value

[Steve Creps]

Reply-to: creps at silver.bacs.indiana.edu (Steve Creps)


   The man page for lseek in Ultrix v3.0 has a mistake in the return value for
lseek(2). The beginning of it says it returns an int, but later the man page
says it returns a long integer. Lint complains unless it is declared as long.
   Also, lint doesn't like it when the second parameter is declared off_t, as
the man page says it should. /usr/include/sys/types.h has off_t typedef'ed to
int, but lint wants a long. Is the mistake in the man page, or the include
file? In other words, would it be a good idea to redefine off_t as long?

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