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Date:      Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:41:50 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: 16-bit pids?  (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?)
Message-ID:  <199508282241.AAA24908@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199508282124.HAA14752@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 29, 95 07:24:08 am

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As Bruce Evans wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know why POSIX specifies `signed arithmetic' types?
> ...  Has anyone
> written a big portable program that supports dev_t, gid_t, ino_t,
> mode_t, nlink_t, off_t, pid_t, ssize_t and uid_t being arbitrary
> arithmetic types including long double?

``process 133.34778 killed due to loss of PID precision.''

:-)

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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