Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:02:36AM +0200, B. Johannessen wrote:
>> I'll buy a beer for the first person to find me an authoritative 
>> reference on the signedness of off_t :-)
> 
> the second argument to lseek(2) is of type off_t and it
> therefore must be signed, since you may seek backwards
> using that syscall.

Amazing how fast you can get an answer when there's free beer involved :-)

While the above is hardly a *reference*, it's clearly definitive proof 
that off_t is signed. Chris, I owe you a beer! Either send me your 
address and I'll mail it, or let me know the next time you're in 
south-western Norway :-)


        Bob

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