Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 13:21:32 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org, terry@lambert.org Cc: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, bde@freefall.freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-sys@freefall.freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, swallace@ece.uci.edu Subject: Re: SYSCALL IDEAS [Was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sysv_msg.c sysv_sem.c sysv_shm.c] Message-ID: <199510260321.NAA02246@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>2^63 -- the highest bit still being reserved for error return on lseek >and for indirect block identification. The highest bit is not reserved for error return on lseek. Only one value ((off_t)-1) is reserved. >The only value of quad is as an annoyance and as a spur to further It is expedient. Would you prefer off_t to be double? (That's in the ABI; inside the kernel and on disks offsets should be represented in an efficient way, perhaps as quads.) Bruce
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