>> Also if you're mandating standards compliance so much - why does
>> glibc define so many non-standard GNU extensions then?
>
> Because these extensions are available on all systems using glibc.
> And for packages which want to use this functionality on other systems
> there is always to possiblity to use the glibc sources in these
So you could implement llseek() in terms of lseek64() and everything
would be fine with you. (because then it would be available everywhere)
Be sure to include it in the Sun, AIX, and Linux namespaces.
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