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Martin Krischik wrote:
> Frank J. Lhota wrote:
> 
> 
>>Martin Krischik wrote:
>>
>>>Well, the very first C did not have "unsigned int" there was just int.
>>>That's why unix has a 2GB limit on files and not a 4 GB limit. (There is
>>>a new set of file IO which can deal with larger files).
>>
>>The standard of the Vanilla, K&R C language "The C Programming Language"
>>first edition, does include unsigned integer types. The old Unix file
>>size limit is probably due to other reasons.

I'm not sure that's necessarily the case.  After all, Unix predates K&R
and K&R C was certainly not the first version of C.

> It's because they used "signed int" for all file operations. Personally I
> consider that damm stupid - after all: have you ever seen a file with a
> negative size?
> 
> Martin