From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wr1-x443.google.com (mail-wr1-x443.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::443]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6CA0B389701A for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:25:07 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org 6CA0B389701A Received: by mail-wr1-x443.google.com with SMTP id n6so2333625wrm.13 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:25:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:cc:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/gvpz0sZiGT+1Kv8y/VGFCyB/HnHXTwYLrBX1sFI/Yk=; b=HRwqzlULFOqmN3dU4RGjH5XsLmvcgXoMipCg+Yr/Pvd/xgJYbWNKwObzjlAvvwIy4b nq3yCVlROi1CmYu3/TFY4tAwhXaErqJSXUonP8RQ2Gm0pnxAfyj+nB0eGcyHFp7njY1C nu3FUi+qxNDVFJXIwstPrhr8zoWxeK0JI31/xpYYFRs9XrnITkwU84sIV52U8PSDsW/k go5kGO4Lv0mgvn/hWUiO1yfw9bLodmM/9+SGfjxscHXArdFN9+y6dTGesjvuXw05jAag Y83mh3/EmJe8pGpOAvqCswao3PnIdtXrfwy4nfHrAHDBlUprVTe18P6sqw0OO2TtK0qk Ry2g== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5308Qf+XfoYVSHMqdqCTSatIfn9w49cvTWmQcMzh/myuBh8muRMe d/4XVzTuSa9Yyr/w0oArvdAJn8DE7FQ= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJz2VfcZhk3Ve0oTAGiNBwTV7ir9WqmXfWfXWKTG21lkR1jLcPgSugqH5HAUjYuUGV19OOprvw== X-Received: by 2002:adf:da4b:: with SMTP id r11mr3477155wrl.130.1603812306471; Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:25:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.60.68]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y201sm2274875wmd.27.2020.10.27.08.25.05 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Oct 2020 08:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] system_data_types.7: Add 'off_t' To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20201005221247.13065-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <87faeeeb-f2e0-7f1e-5692-78b43242f20b@gmail.com> From: Alejandro Colomar Message-ID: <1e587ddc-99a3-f05a-857d-9d221c0818b1@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 16:25:04 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.12.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT, FREEMAIL_FROM, NICE_REPLY_A, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: libc-alpha@sourceware.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Libc-alpha mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 15:25:08 -0000 On 2020-10-27 14:47, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > On 10/27/20 11:23 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >> Hi Michael, >> >> On 2020-10-07 08:53, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: >>> On 10/6/20 12:12 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote: >>>> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar >>> >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>> Thanks, patch applied. And I trimmed the "See also" a little. >>> I'd hold off on documenting loff_t and off64_t for the >>> moment. As you note in another mail, the *lseek* man page >>> situation is a bit of a mess. I'm not yet sure what to do. >> >> >> I saw a TODO in the page about loff_t. >> Just wanted to ping you in case you forgot about it (I did). > > I didn't forget it exactly. I just don't know that I have the > inclination to do anything about the messy *llseek* pages. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > Hi Michael, I've been reading them to add loff_t and off64_t to sys_data_types. Now that I've read them (not too deep), I think that lseek64(3) is good enough, and maybe we should look for small details missing there but present on the others, and merge those to lseek64.3. And then keep links in the other pages pointing to lseek64.3. Any thoughts? Cheers, A