Re: [libvirt] [PATCH v2 11/38] Introduce virStreamSkip

On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 10:54:03AM +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:

> Now, question is whether we want signed or unsigned long long. I don't > have an opinion about that. On one hand, off_t is signed, but that's > because lseek() can seek backwards. We don't have that in our streams. > Yet. On the other hand, our streams are different to regular files. I > view them as a unidirectional pipe. With some extensions (e.g. sparse > messages). lseek() doesn't work over pipes, does it. But then again, > long long might be more future proof, if we will ever want to assign a > meaning to negative seeks. I guess we might as well use signed long long - we aren't gaining anything by using unsigned long long, since the value will be truncated to signed long long when we use it with lseek().