Re: off_t in libgsf interface is problematic

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:35:32PM +0200, Jon-Kare Hellan wrote:
> I think the solution chosen in glib for g_io_channels looks
> reasonable. E.g:
>
> GIOError  g_io_channel_seek     (GIOChannel    *channel,
>                                gint64         offset, 
>                                GSeekType      type);
>
> The implementation uses off_t - 64 bits if available - and checks for
> overflow.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds reasonable.  We should convert from GsfOff_t to GSeekType I
had not noticed that enum.