GNU bug report logs - #9874
Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues

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Message #31 received at 9874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 9874 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Subject: Re: bug#9874: Fixes for several integer overflow and width issues
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:28:19 +0200

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> * File descriptors are small ints on platforms I regularly use,
>   but POSIX doesn't guarantee this assumption. 

Every function returning a new file descriptor returns the smallest
available one, so if you want to get a very big one you have to have
odles of open files already (unless you force a particular descriptor
with dup2, which Emacs doesn't).

Andreas.

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