On Wed, Aug 11, 2010 at 02:13:35PM -0400, der Mouse wrote: > lseek(2) (noticed on 3.23, 3.25 has similar wording) says, in part, > > SVr1-3 returns long instead of off_t, BSD returns int. > > While the BSDs are not a single monolithic entity, NetBSD has returned > off_t from lseek(2) since 1.5 at the very latest, meaning late 2000. > I'd be surprised if there's a non-orphaned BSD left that still uses > int. > > I'm not sure what wording would be best. Depends on whether you think > it's worth mentioning the historical practice from the days when BSD > deserved the B in its name or not, I'd say. Perhaps something like I think removing it is fine. Historical SysV and BSD behaviour might have been interesting in the early 90s, but these days it's something for a history book and not a manual page. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
