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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