Otto Moerbeek dixit:

>One extra thing: do not assume that sizeof(int) == sizeof(size_t). It will
>hit you big time on 64-bit archs.

ssize_t it is, then ;-)

The cast is necessary though. Use -Wextra if you don't know why

//mirabile
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