Change the type of the blksize_t from uint32_t to a POSIX compliant int32_t

Kevin Lo kevlo at FreeBSD.org
Tue Dec 30 09:26:08 UTC 2014


Hi,

POSIX says that the blksize_t shall be signed integer types.
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_types.h.html

I have verified that this patch passes make universe.

Index: sys/sys/_types.h
===================================================================
--- sys/sys/_types.h	(revision 276407)
+++ sys/sys/_types.h	(working copy)
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@
 /*
  * Standard type definitions.
  */
-typedef	__uint32_t	__blksize_t;	/* file block size */
+typedef	__int32_t	__blksize_t;	/* file block size */
 typedef	__int64_t	__blkcnt_t;	/* file block count */
 typedef	__int32_t	__clockid_t;	/* clock_gettime()... */
 typedef	__uint32_t	__fflags_t;	/* file flags */


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