tags 519230 fixed-upstream thanks Hi,
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Tanaka Akira <a...@fsij.org> wrote: > Package: manpages-dev > Version: 2.39-1 > > telldir(3)'s SYNOPSIS section describes telldir returns > off_t as follows. > > off_t telldir(DIR *dir); > > But Single Unix Specification version 3 describes it returns > long. Yes. > SUSv3: > long telldir(DIR *dirp); > > Also the header file declare it returns long. Yes. > % grep telldir /usr/include/dirent.h > extern long int telldir (DIR *__dirp) __THROW __nonnull ((1)); > > seekdir(3) has same issue. SYNOPSIS uses off_t. > > void seekdir(DIR *dir, off_t offset); > > But SUSv3 and the header file uses long. > > SUSv3: > void seekdir(DIR *dirp, long loc); > > % grep seekdir /usr/include/dirent.h > extern void seekdir (DIR *__dirp, long int __pos) __THROW __nonnull ((1)); Yes. > So I think off_t in telldir(3) and seekdir(3) is a bug and > should be replaced by long. True. But there is a bit more to the story. In glibc 2.1.1 and earlier (which would have been current when the man page was written), the type really was 'off_t' in both cases. With glibc 2.1.2 and later, we have the current 'long'. So, I changed the types in both SYNOPSIS sections, and added a NOTES section to each page describing the old type definitions. The changes will be in upstream 3.20. Thanks for the report! Cheers, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
