Re: CVS commit: src/sys/sys

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 01:30:55AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20120318213646.GA13942%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
> Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> >That doesn't say anything about why it should be signed. It is just
> >another place where signed is used for no good reason.
> 
> Yes, it just explains that making unsigned is a larger impact change and
> it would violate the standard.

...which is exactly why I asked why the standard requires it to be
signed. It doesn't seem to make any sense to have this requirement.
E.g. this is not a field returned by any system call, so it doesn't have
to support -1 to flag error conditions.

Joerg