[Info-vax] CRTL and RMS vs SSIO

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Wednesday, October 13, 2021 at 7:19:04 AM UTC+13, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> Try read about lseek vs llseek vs lseek64, off_t vs off64_t vs loff_t 
> and how they behave depending on whether #define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 
> is used or not. 

They were defined by POSIX to ease the transition between 32-bit and 64-bit systems, and they worked admirably for that purpose.

Compare the difficulties this issue has caused proprietary OSes like VMS and Windows ...