Subject: Re: [libssh2] non-blocking status

Re: [libssh2] non-blocking status

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:16:06 +0100 (CET)

On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote:

>> libssh2_sftp_read() might need attention anyway since it is documented to
>> return -1 on error which is hard to do on unsigned variables, and because
>> the normal read() returns ssize_t and I think this should mimic that.
>
> Yup, that sounds simply like a bug that should be fixed.

Would ssize_t be suitable to use? IIRC, it is not present in windows...

> In general, I'd like to see all the string lengths be 'size_t' instead of
> 'unsigned int' or 'unsigned long' too... however, I didn't start on that
> since it typically ends up changing the entire code base, and ultimately the
> APIs too, something I didn't want to do in my first commit.

I completely agree with this. And I'm also in favour of fixing this once and
for all, even if that means API breakage.

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Received on 2007-01-26