Re: [PATCH] df: Fix bug when totaling unknown values.

[Matthew Woehlke]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke writes:

Please do not quote my e-mail address unobfuscated in message bodies. :-)

> > Paul Eggert wrote:
> > > +      if (total != UINTMAX_MAX)
> > Um... I've mentioned that this won't work, haven't I? AIX is (AFAICT)
> > giving 0xFFF...FFE, not 0xFFF...FFF.
>
> The later patch (in that same message) adjusted that line to deal with
> (uintmax_t) -2.

Ah, I see, I missed the second part (perhaps because it was disguised as 
a really long .sig). Sorry :-). And thanks (again).

> Maybe some other oddball system in the future will use (uintmax_t) -3?
> (I was thinking of having df use (uintmax_t) -100, just to make the code
> more future-proof.  :-)

:-D

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Matthew
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