Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use int64_t for return values from rbd instead of int

[Stefan Priebe - Profihost AG]

Am 21.11.2012 23:32, schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On 21 November 2012 17:03, Stefan Weil <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Why do you use int64_t instead of off_t?
> > If the value is related to file sizes, off_t would be a good choice.
>
> Looking at the librbd API (which is what the size and ret
> values come from), it uses size_t and ssize_t for these.
> So I think probably ssize_t is the right type for ret
> (and size) in our structs here.

This sounds reasonable but does ssize_t support negative values? For 
error values.

Greets,
Stefan