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		acqq on April 19, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Heap overflow bug in OpenSSL > off_t is signed and doesn't make sense Wrong, it's used to seek in both directions in calls where direction is signed by... a sign! http://www.unix.com/man-page/POSIX/3posix/lseek/

adobriyan on April 19, 2012 [–]

[slowly]

off_t is wrong for maintaining length because off_t is signed and lengths are fundamentally unsigned.

Signed offset is OK for seeking.

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