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From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
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Subject: Re: kern/140690: [libc] [patch] swab(3) with negative len should
 do nothing
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The following reply was made to PR kern/140690; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@datapipe.com>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>, <jeremyhu@apple.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: kern/140690: [libc] [patch] swab(3) with negative len should
 do nothing
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:18:48 -0600

 I'd like to add to this.
 
 As for the length argument.  Is there really ever a time it would have
 to be signed?
 
 If not, then I would suggest declaring the type as size_t and not
 ssize_t much like the read/write/etc syscalls.
 
 ~Paul
 
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