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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>
Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
	linux-man@vger.kernel.org,  libc-alpha@sourceware.org,
	 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Document size_t
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:32:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8m2ydn2.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16920ef9-1b0d-b582-b87e-fe915522ccd1@gmail.com> (Alejandro Colomar's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:28:09 +0200")

* Alejandro Colomar:

>>> In the See also, I just put a few important pages.
>>> Maybe you want to include a few more.
>> I added read(2) and write(2).
>
> Fine.  I didn't remember their arguments are 'size_t'.  I was under
> the idea that they used 'ssize_t'.

The outliers are readv and writev, which use int for the array length
argument (at least in POSIX).

Thanks,
Florian
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      reply	other threads:[~2020-09-18 21:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-18 11:27 Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 11:27 ` [PATCH 1/2] system_data_types.7: " Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 14:34   ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-18 15:53     ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 17:27       ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-18 17:42     ` Paul Eggert
2020-09-18 17:53       ` Florian Weimer
2020-09-30 15:50       ` Joseph Myers
2020-09-18 20:13   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-28 13:41   ` Dave Martin
2020-09-28 13:48     ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-28 13:55       ` G. Branden Robinson
2020-09-28 14:15         ` Dave Martin
2020-09-28 14:51           ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-28 15:16             ` [RFC] system_data_types.7: wfix + ffix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 10:37               ` Dave Martin
2020-09-29 11:34                 ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-29 12:10                   ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 14:22                     ` [PATCH v2] system_data_types.7: Improve "Include" wording and format, and explain it in NOTES Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 14:43                       ` Dave Martin
2020-09-29 14:52                         ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 15:06                           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-29 15:13                             ` Dave Martin
2020-09-29 15:21                               ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-29 15:10                           ` Dave Martin
2020-09-29 11:57                 ` [RFC] system_data_types.7: wfix + ffix Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-30 17:16             ` [PATCH 1/2] system_data_types.7: Document size_t Joseph Myers
2020-09-29 11:11           ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-28 14:47         ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 11:27 ` [PATCH 2/2] size_t.3: New link to new documented type in system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 20:14   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18 20:13 ` [PATCH 0/2] Document size_t Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-09-18 21:28   ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-09-18 21:32     ` Florian Weimer [this message]

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