unix question: files per directory

[Mike McNally]

In article <8420 at xanth.cs.odu.edu> kremer at cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
>Why was it decided that off_t should be signed?  . . .
>And it doesn't make sense to have a negative offset into a file . . .

Except when performing relative seeks:

    newpos = lseek(fd, (off_t) distance, L_INCR);

I suppose one could create a new type for this purpose, and iterate to
traverse distances greater than 2GB.

Of course, an implementation with 64-bit longs would probably stave off
these complaints for quite some time.

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