From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Message-Id: <199902031053.LAA19755@juno.erisoft.se>
Subject: _llseeks()'s return value
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 11:53:29 +0100 (MET)
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Hmm... I seem to have a problem. _llseek() is supposed to return the
file pointer's (or whatever it's called) position. As there doesn't
seem to be any support for seek with bigger than 2^31 offsets,
_llseek() will have to call lseek() (potentially) several times. But
how is _llseek() to know what to return as lseek() only returns values
<= 2^31. 

Is there some internal libc structure containing the current file
pointer? Is this declared long long (more than 32 bits anyway)?

Is it ok if I add such a thing if there isn't?


Right,

							MartinS