Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 16:14:08 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Should off_t become unsigned?
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On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> POSIX.1 specifically states that "pid_t, ssize_t, and off_t shall be
> signed arithmetic types".

Then POSIX has no way to support files larger than 2GB, unless you go to 
64-bit ints, right?

I think we shouldn't be POSIX adepts on this one.  If we make it 
unsigned, what specifically would break?