> Mostly because of the lseek() interface, AFAIK.
I was about to say lseek uses off_t - which is unsigned, but its not.
And negative offsets are allowed and required for lseek.
Opps.
I think I'll be quiet now... (but that doesn't entirely rule this out
for use with llseek and files in thr 2-3 gb range, does it?)
-cw
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