Re: regression in man pages for interfaces using loff_t

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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.



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