From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 22632 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2023 18:22:03 -0000 Received: from second.openwall.net (193.110.157.125) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 28 Jun 2023 18:22:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 29933 invoked by uid 550); 28 Jun 2023 18:21:53 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Received: (qmail 29868 invoked from network); 28 Jun 2023 18:21:52 -0000 DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.10.3 mail.cs.ucla.edu AA7BB3C21FA42 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=cs.ucla.edu; s=9D0B346E-2AEB-11ED-9476-E14B719DCE6C; t=1687976499; bh=TYRQB5+6OScKoFYtZCWO5uE7bXRrJL299o2v3jlypfg=; h=Message-ID:Date:MIME-Version:To:From; b=GnUzipf3ApWuljkbMbamRXluACtU8EtzgP6EQRa6oXzwiYkKweQUn/wiMYStlv84z U0SgKkvfFiJB/jm/QEs+F3gUdv+wNUi0plvn7pE0pbMtvV2rmjycvpeJcaRedoIOoB OevZ0easDzUVbeygeGdhdsB4i4Pl/v9CSdhNEfH1w8edY+DiAj8Ujbckv6fT5ElsQv C2m9bX7kUBAN4rFbGtwNvtO+IEWXZWgtcTO3lvKc0SuhTI1zG0rIgBvCp8oT8Jp8h1 IJUI1F3O0I155Q+y851dC2+89viuGy3YE7IwjTeFjJkwKWRCljkNWJvO5BvMaAoVvj ukgJK+3pwfyhA== X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail.cs.ucla.edu Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2023 11:21:39 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.11.0 Content-Language: en-US To: Rich Felker , linux-man@vger.kernel.org Cc: musl@lists.openwall.com, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-coord@lists.openwall.com References: <20230628175329.GA16113@brightrain.aerifal.cx> From: Paul Eggert Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department In-Reply-To: <20230628175329.GA16113@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [musl] Re: regression in man pages for interfaces using loff_t On 2023-06-28 10:53, Rich Felker wrote: > The whole reason loff_t exists is to avoid this problem and make a > type that's "always full width offset, regardless of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS > or _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE" to match with the kernel expectation for these > interfaces. Why can't off64_t be that type, as it is in glibc? I'm not seeing why we need two names for the same type.