>> 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. > 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. Sounds like a reasonable point of view to me. However, since the manpages are also one of the places people go when trying to figure out old code, I'd probably not delete it entirely but instead replace it with something alojng the lines of Hisorical practice has varied, but modern systems uniformly use off_t. But, really, even that may be more than is worth bothering with; it's been a long time since lseek returning non-off_t mattered to anyone but hardcore retrocomputing geeks. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B -- 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
