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From: ka@hropus.UUCP (Kenneth Almquist)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: write (fildes, buf, nbytes) -- is "nbytes" int or unsigned?
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Date: Fri, 31-Jul-87 12:46:57 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 31 12:46:57 1987
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> I suspect that the left column [with nbytes unsigned] represents the
> way things have been, and the right column [with nbytes signed] represents
> the way some people feel things ought to be.

Originally, nbytes was signed.  The write system call predates the
invention of the unsigned data type.
					Kenneth Almquist