Re: projected life of the ext2 filesystem format

[miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg)]

In article <[🔎] Pine.A32.3.93.980129115217.42428A-100000@seminole.gate.net>,
Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net> wrote:
>Well, since the time function is documented as returning -1 on errors,
>that pretty much rules out time_t being unsigned.
>
>RETURN VALUE
>       On  success,  the value of time in seconds since the Epoch
>       is returned.  On  error,  ((time_t)-1)  is  returned,  and
>       errno is set appropriately.


Note that there's an explicit cast to time_t. It is not nessecarily
true that (time_t)-1 == (int)-1. It could be true that
(time_t)-1 == (unsigned int)-1

Mike.
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