Re: vm_size_t is unsigned, add vm_ssize_t?

[Samuel Thibault]

Roland McGrath, le Mon 21 Feb 2011 16:42:23 -0800, a écrit :
> ssize_t is for things that either return a size_t value or -1.
> It's never used for parameters.  I don't think a vm_ssize_t makes any sense.
> 
> This is an odd way to use constructed the RPC interface for this, but we
> already have it and perhaps there was some reason to do it that way.
> You can just pass (vm_size_t) -1 as the value to indicate "no upper limit".
> That should work automatically without any special effort on the server side.

So we need to change the RPC documentation to explicit "-1" instead of
"negative", right?

Samuel