Matthew Woehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Um. In fact, it is also an *ERROR* (i.e. read() will fail outright with - > IIRC - EINVAL) to try to read more than SSIZE_MAX bytes at once. Many, but > not all, systems define SSIZE_MAX to be a very large value, but it may be > as small as 32k. I guess I've never tried to source an autoconf configure > script on such a system.
If your ssize_t is smaller than 32 bits you'll have to worry about more things than that. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list Bug-bash@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
