svn commit: r221993 - in head/sys: kern sys

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <BANLkTin15ap=L5q6Ji45B8-EQm9Gg7q8qQ at mail.gmail.com>, mdf at FreeBSD.or
g writes:

>> Log:
>> Change the length quantities of sbufs to be ssize_t rather than int.
>
>Why?
>
>Do we really expect someone to put more than 2GB
>into something that is a string buffer?

That is exactly why I am doing it.

sbufs have gained a life outside FreeBSD, and while that particular
implementation has different internals, I would prefer if we can
keep the API unified across platforms.

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