Messages in this thread |  | | From | Florian Weimer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] lseek.2: SYNOPSIS: Use correct types | Date | Sun, 22 Nov 2020 13:43:18 +0100 |
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* Alejandro Colomar:
> The Linux kernel uses 'unsigned int' instead of 'int' for 'fd' and > 'whence'. As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same types the > kernel uses.
lseek is a POSIX interface, and glibc provides it. POSIX uses int for file descriptors (and the whence parameter in case of lseek).
The llseek system call is a different matter, that's indeed Linux-specific.
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