linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open

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Message-ID: <20140901153637.GI7996@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 1 Sep 2014 16:36:38 +0100
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Rob Jones <rob.jones@...ethink.co.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...ethink.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: replace int param with size_t for seq_open_private()

On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 02:17:08PM +0100, Rob Jones wrote:

>  void *__seq_open_private(struct file *f, const struct seq_operations *ops,
> -		int psize)
> +		size_t psize)

<sarcasm>
It is a horrible limitation to impose, indeed.  Why, a lousy
2 gigabytes per line in procfs file - that's intolerable...
</sarcasm> 
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