Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 20:29:02 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: mdf@FreeBSD.org Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r221993 - in head/sys: kern sys Message-ID: <20925.1305577742@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 May 2011 10:35:18 MST." <BANLkTin15ap=L5q6Ji45B8-EQm9Gg7q8qQ@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <BANLkTin15ap=L5q6Ji45B8-EQm9Gg7q8qQ@mail.gmail.com>, mdf@FreeBSD.or g writes: >> Log: >> Change the length quantities of sbufs to be ssize_t rather than int. > >Why? > >Do we really expect someone to put more than 2GB >into something that is a string buffer? That is exactly why I am doing it. sbufs have gained a life outside FreeBSD, and while that particular implementation has different internals, I would prefer if we can keep the API unified across platforms. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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