Re: PR/44847 CVS commit: src/sys/sys

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR standards/44847; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
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Subject: Re: PR/44847 CVS commit: src/sys/sys
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:56:32 -0400

 On Mar 18,  2:30pm, martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: PR/44847 CVS commit: src/sys/sys
 
 | The following reply was made to PR standards/44847; it has been noted by 
GNATS.
 | 
 | From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
 | To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 | Cc: 
 | Subject: Re: PR/44847 CVS commit: src/sys/sys
 | Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 15:28:08 +0100
 | 
 |  On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 02:25:02PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
 |  >  You realize that the internal kernel blocksize bookkeeping was already
 |  >  signed (va_blocksize)?
 |  
 |  No, can we fix that instead? ;-)
 
 That's a larger undertaking :-)
 
 |  >  Don't know, but if you grep all 360+ usages of st_blksize in userland,
 |  >  they all assumed signed (except 1, in bin/cat).
 |  
 |  Gross - for what value of "assumed" is that?
 
 Checking if negative or 0, casting to signed etc.
 
 christos