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Date:      Mon, 16 May 2011 20:29:02 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        mdf@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r221993 - in head/sys: kern sys 
Message-ID:  <20925.1305577742@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 2011 10:35:18 MST." <BANLkTin15ap=L5q6Ji45B8-EQm9Gg7q8qQ@mail.gmail.com> 

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In message <BANLkTin15ap=L5q6Ji45B8-EQm9Gg7q8qQ@mail.gmail.com>, mdf@FreeBSD.or
g writes:

>> Log:
>> Change the length quantities of sbufs to be ssize_t rather than int.
>
>Why?
>
>Do we really expect someone to put more than 2GB
>into something that is a string buffer?

That is exactly why I am doing it.

sbufs have gained a life outside FreeBSD, and while that particular
implementation has different internals, I would prefer if we can
keep the API unified across platforms.

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