Checks to see if unsigned integers < 0

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 01:35:34PM -0400, simo wrote:
> > With this vague statement I am a bit reluctant to remove the
> > uid<0 checks just because the most popular platform has that
> > as an unsigned. Maybe we should #ifdef that somehow if it is
> > a real problem?
> 
> Let's put it another way, do you know of any platform that does not
> define it as a unsigned integer ?

I do not know, but that does not mean this does not exist.
That's why I was asking where Posix specifies it *has* to be
an unsigned integer.

Does someone else on this list have more insight on where
Posix mandates that uid_t is unsigned?

Volker

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