On Apr 8, 10:09am, "Chris G. Demetriou" wrote:
} Subject: Re: XFree86 2.1 and new stuff
} > Prototypes are a crutch for the weak.
} 
} Tell that to people who explicitly cast lseek's offset arg to
} (long)...  8-)

     I do believe that the 'l' in 'lseek' stands for long, as in the
offset arg is long.  Smack ANSI for changing the semantics of it.
Note that in OSF/1 offset_t (or whatever) is defined as long and long
is 64 bits, which gets you very big files (somewhere in the
terabytes).

}-- End of excerpt from "Chris G. Demetriou"

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