On 08/12/2013 01:44 AM, Paul Eggert wrote: > I think the worry was that there are zillions of such types > (mode_t, dev_t, pid_t, etc.), too many to define a function > for each. For valid gid_t and uid_t values one can use > umaxtostr in practice, and there seemed to be little point > to tuning for platforms where gid_t and uid_t are narrower than > uintmax_t.
Fair enough. Thanks for the explanation. Have a nice day, Berny