Hope I am not too anoying ... ;-)

I have tried both _GNU_SOURCE and _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE and in neither case do I get a definition for 'struct stat64'

If I understand correctly then source using 'struct stat64' should be fixed to use 'struct stat' instead ?

If this is not correct, then 'struct stat64' should probably be added to <sys/stat.h> as only the following are defined there:

#if defined(_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE) || defined(_GNU_SOURCE)
#define stat64 stat
#define fstat64 fstat
#define lstat64 lstat
#define fstatat64 fstatat
#define blksize64_t blksize_t
#define blkcnt64_t blkcnt_t
#define ino64_t ino_t
#define off64_t off_t
#endif

Regards

Paul

On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx> wrote:

On Tue, Mar 04, 2014 at 06:15:01AM +0200, Paul Schutte wrote:
> Thanks and I agree with padsp being messy.
>
> My question really boils down to
> Should 'struct stat64' be used from within a program and if so, which
> header file should I include ?

If you want "struct stat64", make sure _GNU_SOURCE or
_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE is defined before including any system headers
(best way is with -D_GNU_SOURCE etc. in your CFLAGS) and include
sys/stat.h. However, it would be better to just use "struct stat",
etc. (With glibc, you need -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 in your CFLAGS to
make this work right; with musl it always works.)

Rich