Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 00:43:38 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>, arch@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Last call: removing the INT_MAX limit on max i/o size Message-ID: <20120218084338.GG31998@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20791.1329554045@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <20120218074655.GF31998@elvis.mu.org> <20791.1329554045@critter.freebsd.dk>
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* Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> [120218 00:34] wrote: > In message <20120218074655.GF31998@elvis.mu.org>, Alfred Perlstein writes: > > >I always wonder if it's worth defining a type for this, resid_t or > >something, > > Wouldn't that naturally be size_t ? I think that makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of making sure that functions that take a resid_t aren't actually being passed the wrong ssize_t, but really that's probably too much fence and just would obfuscate things. -- - Alfred Perlstein .- VMOA #5191, 03 vmax, 92 gs500, 85 ch250, 07 zx10 .- FreeBSD committer
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