From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-6.8 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIMWL_WL_HIGH, DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32E76C43464 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3AA3222BB for ; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:40 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.d=redhat.com header.i=@redhat.com header.b="PfimjVZ5" Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726245AbgIRVck (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:32:40 -0400 Received: from us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com ([63.128.21.124]:21175 "EHLO us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726139AbgIRVck (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:32:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=redhat.com; s=mimecast20190719; t=1600464759; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=ElkO9GlfVJyfFJjNY90v6whFjzuQEuhuYZIPa17EyGc=; b=PfimjVZ5LtcqVzRmbjKs0bAMu+pZqhECdvEcKCh4GMPEhwTyr+Q/UnKHB+WbDI5LkXRuuK +jbFCnqaoh9ag/cDjUnEYdbTuJ/ocVpp6sLgRSZhsL13wpHgSH9QDF62/kzun4ASsOn4pM PrbMm0pYmepSnxGrTBaK6ATU5BZBlNA= Received: from mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (mimecast-mx01.redhat.com [209.132.183.4]) (Using TLS) by relay.mimecast.com with ESMTP id us-mta-420-1ewHTUKyO5mRbN38AmVfWA-1; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:32:37 -0400 X-MC-Unique: 1ewHTUKyO5mRbN38AmVfWA-1 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mimecast-mx01.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8C88F18B9F91; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oldenburg2.str.redhat.com (ovpn-113-177.ams2.redhat.com [10.36.113.177]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 66C4C78803; Fri, 18 Sep 2020 21:32:35 +0000 (UTC) From: Florian Weimer To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Paul Eggert Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Document size_t References: <20200918112755.21428-1-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com> <16920ef9-1b0d-b582-b87e-fe915522ccd1@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:32:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: <16920ef9-1b0d-b582-b87e-fe915522ccd1@gmail.com> (Alejandro Colomar's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 23:28:09 +0200") Message-ID: <87o8m2ydn2.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.79 on 10.5.11.11 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org * Alejandro Colomar: >>> In the See also, I just put a few important pages. >>> Maybe you want to include a few more. >> I added read(2) and write(2). > > Fine. I didn't remember their arguments are 'size_t'. I was under > the idea that they used 'ssize_t'. The outliers are readv and writev, which use int for the array length argument (at least in POSIX). Thanks, Florian -- Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/ , Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen, HRB 153243, Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael O'Neill