On 11/08/04 10:05, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > des 2004-11-08 18:05:43 UTC > > FreeBSD src repository > > Modified files: > sys/sys _types.h resource.h > Log: > Document why rlim_t needs to be a signed type. > Define RLIM_INFINITY as INT64_MAX instead of hand-rolling it.
>From r137390: > -typedef __int64_t __rlim_t; /* resource limit (XXX not > unsigned) */ > +typedef __int64_t __rlim_t; /* resource limit - > intentionally */ > + /* signed, because of legacy code */ > + /* that uses -1 for RLIM_INFINITY */ Is it time to drop compatibility for code which was "legacy" 12 years ago in order to conform to the POSIX stipulation that rlim_t should be unsigned? -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
