From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:26:01 GMT
Subject: Re: libgit2 - a true git library
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0811012124250.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0811010944000.13034@xanadu.home>

Hi,

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> Again, please have a look at include/linux/err.h.  The pointer range 
> from 0xffffffff (or 0xffffffffffffffff on 64-bit machines) down to the 
> range you want is for errors, and the top of the address range is almost 
> certain to never be valid in user space either.

How certain may I be of that assumption?  Because an assumption it is.

Ciao,
Dscho