"Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > From: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/15] midx: convert chunk write methods to return int Please rephrase the title to avoid misleading the readers; it is not like we used to return the number of bytes written in size_t but we realized that we never write mroe than INTMAX and narrowed the return type to "int". In other words, returning "int" is not the most important thing in this change. What is more important is that the function will eventually signal success/failure with its return value.