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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 04:04:12PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>According to cygwin at sipxx.com on 8/21/2009 3:56 PM:
>>It does reject the argument if the upper bound is reached.  On the
>>lower end, the linux man page does not specify that negative numbers
>>are not allowed as arguments.
>
>But POSIX does (and Linux at least obeys this part of POSIX, whether or
>not its man page says so):

I checked in a fix for this a while ago.  It's in the latest snapshot.

Thanks for the test case.

cgf

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