Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!gwyn@Brl-Vld.ARPA From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: integer types, sys calls, and stdio Message-ID: <7206@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 02:08:22 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7206 Posted: Fri Jan 11 02:08:22 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:46:33 EST Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 14 Definitely there are several incorrect system call and C library interface descriptions in the 4.2BSD manual. In those cases where there is a corresponding UNIX System V, /usr/group, or ANSI X3J11 specification you should use it instead. The only "variable type" declarations used in the ANSI C library specifications are a few instances apiece of: jmp_buf va_list size_t onexit_ptr time_t On 4.2BSD time_t is necessarily a long (must be an integral type!) and size_t is a unsigned (type of "sizeof" operator). For the case you give as an example, the answer is: long lseek( int fildes, long offset, int whence );