Re: diskfs.h `filepointer' type

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:

>    Also, one should look to all the users of the field in question (in
>    the library itself and also in the programs that use the library,
>    at least ufs and ext2fs) and see what kinds of local variables they
>    are using to hold values in the field, and function parameters that
>    are connected to it also.
> 
> All the users of that field use off_t from what I can see; io-seek,
> io-write, io-read and conch-set (xx_file_pointer is of type off_t).

So why not off_t in the structure instead?