Re: regression in man pages for interfaces using loff_t

Paul Eggert
2023-06-28T18:21:44Z

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.