[OpenAFS-devel] Max /vicep partition size?

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Fri, 2 Feb 2007 13:53:27 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Sean O'Malley wrote:

> > .... is still not a problem, because we're talking about an error code, not
> > the partition size.  com_err error codes are signed values, and while they
> > are 32 bits wide, UV_PartitionInfo is a local API, not an RPC, so provided
> > the prototype is present (which it is), you'll be fine even on the rare
> > system on which 'int' is 64 bits (as someone else pointed out, int will not
> > be smaller than 32 bits on any system on which AFS runs).
> >
>
> Are you sure that is an error code?

Yes, I am quite sure that the return value of UV_PartitionInfo() is an
error code.