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From:   Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To:     Alejandro Colomar <alx.manpages@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lseek.2: SYNOPSIS: Use correct types
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* Alejandro Colomar:

> The Linux kernel uses 'unsigned int' instead of 'int' for 'fd' and
> 'whence'.  As glibc provides no wrapper, use the same types the
> kernel uses.

lseek is a POSIX interface, and glibc provides it.  POSIX uses int for
file descriptors (and the whence parameter in case of lseek).

The llseek system call is a different matter, that's indeed
Linux-specific.