From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 28 21:21:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA10972 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:21:05 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.FreeBSD.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA10965 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 1995 21:21:01 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id GAA04610 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:20:58 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id GAA18695 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 06:20:58 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA24908 for hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org; Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:41:50 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199508282241.AAA24908@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: 16-bit pids? (was Re: 16, 32, and 64bit types?) To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 00:41:50 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199508282124.HAA14752@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Aug 29, 95 07:24:08 am Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 495 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)