Tom Lane writes: > > The prototype for fseek() is long int; I had assumed that off_t was not > > defined if _LARGEFILE_SOURCE was not defined.
All that _LARGEFILE_SOURCE does is make fseeko() and ftello() visible on some systems, but on some systems they should be available by default. > Oh, you're right. A quick look at HPUX shows it's the same way: ftell > returns long int, ftello returns off_t (which presumably is an alias > for long long int). Okay, OFF_T seems a reasonable answer. fseek() and ftell() using long int for the offset was a mistake, therefore fseeko() and ftello() were invented. (This is independent of whether the large file interface is used.) To activate the large file interface you define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64, which transparently replaces off_t and everything that uses it with a 64 bit version. There is no need to use any of the proposed macro tricks (because that exact macro trick is already provided by the OS). -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
