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- From: frank@D012S436.sniap.mchp.sni.de ()
- Subject: Re: A few UNIX questions
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.081414.6932@sniap.mchp.sni.de>
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- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 08:14:14 GMT
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- mike@BRL.MIL ( Mike Muuss) writes:
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- : From: Michael Panosh <mwp.michael@melpn1.prime.com> PrimeService, Australia
- :
- : > Can *anyone* tell me why the file size is a signed integer. Surely there
- : > is no need for negative sized files!!
- :
- : Because lseek() needs to be able to return -1 on error, and not have it
- : look like a valid file offset.
- :
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- Umm, and a *signed* file size helps, does it?
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