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Subject: [musl] Re: [libc-coord] [PATCH v4] off64_t: prefer off_t for splice, etc.


Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> For the few functions that come only in 64-bit off_t flavors,
> document their APIs as using off_t instead of off64_t,
> and say also that code should #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64.
> This documents what user code is (and should be) doing anyway,
> if it needs to work on traditional x86 and ARM Linux.

LGTM and thank you Paul.

I haven't checked for other prototypes/examples which need
changing.