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Message-ID: <20190820102849.GA24852@pirotess.home>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:28:49 +0200
From: Ismael Luceno <ismael@...ev.co.uk>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add copy_file_range system call
On 19/Aug/2019 20:56, Rich Felker wrote:
<...>
> Is there a reason for the choice to put it in unistd.h? Similar
> functions seem to have gone in fcntl.h. unistd.h does not make the
> loff_t type available which could be problematic to callers using it,
> since they really should (for API compatibility) be declaring the
> objects whose addresses they pass as loff_t.
>
> If glibc does it here and exposes loff_t in unistd.h we might need to
> consider doing that too with _GNU_SOURCE.
+1. I've seen some code in the wild depend on loff_t.
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