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From: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] system_data_types.7: Add 'off_t'
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 2020 00:12:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201005221247.13065-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
---
 man7/system_data_types.7 | 50 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)

diff --git a/man7/system_data_types.7 b/man7/system_data_types.7
index b8cbc8ffe..916efef08 100644
--- a/man7/system_data_types.7
+++ b/man7/system_data_types.7
@@ -629,6 +629,56 @@ C99 and later; POSIX.1-2001 and later.
 See also:
 .BR lldiv (3)
 .RE
+.\"------------------------------------- off_t ------------------------/
+.TP
+.I off_t
+.RS
+Include:
+.IR <sys/types.h> .
+Alternatively,
+.IR <aio.h> ,
+.IR <fcntl.h> ,
+.IR <stdio.h> ,
+.IR <sys/mman.h> ,
+.IR <sys/stat.h.h> ,
+or
+.IR <unistd.h> .
+.PP
+Used for file sizes.
+According to POSIX,
+this shall be a signed integer type.
+.PP
+Versions:
+.I <aio.h>
+and
+.I <stdio.h>
+define
+.I off_t
+since POSIX.1-2008.
+.PP
+Conforming to:
+POSIX.1-2001 and later.
+.PP
+See also:
+.BR fallocate (2),
+.BR lseek (2),
+.BR mmap (2),
+.BR mmap2 (2),
+.BR posix_fadvise (2),
+.BR pread (2),
+.BR preadv (2),
+.BR truncate (2),
+.BR fseeko (3),
+.BR getdirentries (3),
+.BR lockf (3),
+.BR posix_fallocate (3)
+.\".PP		TODO: loff_t, off64_t
+.\"See also the
+.\".I loff_t
+.\"and
+.\".I off64_t
+.\"types in this page.
+.RE
 .\"------------------------------------- pid_t ------------------------/
 .TP
 .I pid_t
-- 
2.28.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-10-05 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05 22:12 Alejandro Colomar [this message]
2020-10-05 22:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] off_t.3: New link to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-07  6:53   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-07  6:53 ` [PATCH 1/2] system_data_types.7: Add 'off_t' Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-27 10:23   ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-27 13:47     ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-27 15:25       ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-27 16:22         ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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