On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 1:49 PM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > Hmm, if these functions are expected to operate like 'write(2)' and are > supposed to return the number of bytes written, shouldn't their return value > be 'ssize_t' instead of 'int'? It looks like the system calls themselves > already do the right thing in setting td_retval[] (they assign a ssize_t to it > and td_retval[0] can hold a ssize_t on all of our current platforms). It > would seem that the only change would be to the header and probably > syscalls.master. I guess this would require a symver bump to fix though.
An extended attribute larger than 2GB is a programming abuse, though. Technically int may not be 32 bits but it is on all supported platforms now. Cheers, matthew _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
