Re: lseek: Value too large for defined data type

On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:31:05 +0100 Tim Southerwood <ts@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| The first line is not correct, though it doesn't break due to "long long"
| being good enough in this case, but you really need to follow the header
| definitions faithfully otherwise random bad things will happen in the
| future. lseek returns an off_t, so that's what you should use.

Like when we add "long long long long" to be 128 bits and change file
offset bits to be 128 :-)

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