Hi, On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:09 PM, der Mouse <mouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. > >> 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. I agree. I removed this entire line. > 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. Yes. Thanks for the note. The change will be in Linux man-pages-3.27. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
