> Never trust prototypes.  Always cast.  It's easier to read, maintain,
> and guaranteed to work and force it to do what you mean.

sorry, to this i have to say "yah, right."

why?

for a long time, the second arg to lseek() was a 'long', and people would
commonly cast it that way.

Well, now, every instance of code that does that is broken.



cgd