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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:12:17 -0600
From: Christian Peron <csjp@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: shmmax tops out at 2G?
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:58:09AM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote:
[..]
> 
> 	Why isn't the field an unsigned int / size_t? I don't see much value 
> in having the size be signed...

No idea :) This code long predates me.