[PATCH 2.4.23-pre3] do we want negative file descriptors?

[PATCH 2.4.23-pre3] do we want negative file descriptors?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

As far as I can see it does not make much sense to have negative fds
(which are in fact indexes for an array), so we can declare them unsigned.
Or not? (If yes, this one avoids some compiler warnings with gcc 3.3)

Eike

--- linux-2.4.23-pre3/include/linux/sched.h	2003-09-05 15:04:48.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.23-pre3-caliban/include/linux/sched.h	2003-09-07 11:04:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -172,9 +172,9 @@
 struct files_struct {
 	atomic_t count;
 	rwlock_t file_lock;	/* Protects all the below members.  Nests inside tsk->alloc_lock */
-	int max_fds;
-	int max_fdset;
-	int next_fd;
+	unsigned int max_fds;
+	unsigned int max_fdset;
+	unsigned int next_fd;
 	struct file ** fd;	/* current fd array */
 	fd_set *close_on_exec;
 	fd_set *open_fds;
--- linux-2.4.23-pre3/fs/file.c	2003-09-05 15:04:46.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.23-pre3-caliban/fs/file.c	2003-09-07 11:01:09.000000000 +0200
@@ -57,7 +57,8 @@
 int expand_fd_array(struct files_struct *files, int nr)
 {
 	struct file **new_fds;
-	int error, nfds;
+	int error;
+	unsigned int nfds;
 
 	
 	error = -EMFILE;
@@ -166,7 +167,8 @@
 int expand_fdset(struct files_struct *files, int nr)
 {
 	fd_set *new_openset = 0, *new_execset = 0;
-	int error, nfds = 0;
+	int error;
+	unsigned int nfds = 0;
 
 	error = -EMFILE;
 	if (files->max_fdset >= NR_OPEN || nr >= NR_OPEN)