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From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: unix question: files per directory
Message-ID: <500@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 14 Apr 89 16:25:35 GMT
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From article <8420@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, by kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer):
> In article <16839@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>>The maximum size is the same as for files, namely 2^31 - 1 (2147483647)
>>bytes.  (This is due to the use of a signed 32 bit integer for off_t.
> 
> Why was it decided that off_t should be signed?

I'd imagine an unsigned off_t would make seeking backwards along a file a
bit messy.

Comments Chris??
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