The manual erroneously says that fpos_t is off_t in the GNU system

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Wed Jun 6 00:11:00 GMT 2001


Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org> writes:

>>-In the GNU system, @code{fpos_t} is equivalent to @code{off_t} or
>>-@code{long int}.  In other systems, it might have a different internal
>>+In the GNU system, @code{fpos_t} is an opaque data structure that
>>+contains internal data to represent file offset and conversion state
>>+information.  In other systems, it might have a different internal
>> representation.
> 
> How about:
> 
>   @code{fpos_t} is an opaque data structure.  In the GNU system, it contains
>   internal data which represents file offset and conversion state information.
>   [...]

In glibc 2.1 fpos_t was just a typedef for off_t - that's as far as I
understand not an opaque data structure.

I'm committing my last version now with some minor changes,

Andreas
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