On 22 November 2012 08:23, Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG <s.pri...@profihost.ag> wrote: > Am 21.11.2012 23:32, schrieb Peter Maydell: >> Looking at the librbd API (which is what the size and ret >> values come from), it uses size_t and ssize_t for these. >> So I think probably ssize_t is the right type for ret >> (and size) in our structs here. > > > This sounds reasonable but does ssize_t support negative values? For error > values.
Yes, the first 's' in ssize_t means 'signed' and is the difference between it and size_t. -- PMM