On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:12:06AM +0200, B. Johannessen wrote:
> 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 :-)

much as the idea of receiving a beer in the mail appeals,
I'll let you off this time ;-)

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