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The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, bug-glibc-manual at gnu dot org
- Subject: The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system
- From: stefan dot asserhall at telia dot com
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:30:00 +0200
>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Stefan Asserhäll
>Organization:
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: Manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: libc
>Class: doc-bug
>Release: libc-2.1.92
>Environment:
Linux Redhat 7.0
Host type: i686-redhat-linux-gnu
System: Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
Architecture: i686
Addons: c_stubs glibc-compat linuxthreads soft-fp
Build CFLAGS: -march=i686 -D__USE_STRING_INLINES -fstrict-aliasing -freorder-blocks -DNDEBUG=1 -g -O3
Build CC: gcc
Compiler version: 2.96 20000731 (experimental)
Kernel headers: 2.4.0-0.26
Symbol versioning: yes
Build static: yes
Build shared: yes
Build pic-default: no
Build profile: yes
Build omitfp: no
Build bounded: no
Build static-nss: no
Stdio: libio
>Description:
The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system
under "Portable File-Position Functions". This is no longer true,
see _G_Config.h where _G_fpos_t is defined as a struct.
Some software seems to rely on fpos_t being equal to off_t, for
example PGP 6.5.8, which does not build on RedHat 7.0.
>How-To-Repeat:
Read the manual.
>Fix:
Describe that fpos_t is a struct with members __off and __state
in the manual under "Portable File-Position Functions".