cvs commit: src/sys/sys _types.h resource.h

[Colin Percival]

On 10/21/16 15:44, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Colin Percival <cperciva at tarsnap.com> writes:
>> I wasn't talking about the value of RLIM_INFINITY, but rather about whether
>> rlim_t should be signed or unsigned.  Right now it is signed; but POSIX says
>> it should be unsigned, and most other OSes follow POSIX's mandate here.
> 
> Yeah, I was a little bit confused about what my commit actually did

It added a comment providing a reason for not conforming to POSIX, but did not
change the underlying behaviour.

> (it's been 12 years!) but my point is that a) by all means, signedness
> doesn't really matter for compatibility, but b) if we're changing the
> type, we might as well change the value of RLIM_INFINITY to (rlim_t)-1
> to match other OSes, and we can do it without significant breakage.

Should we get a ports experimental run for this?

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Colin Percival
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