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The variable we use to keep track of the watcher of the ssl connection should be unsigned. This isn't really a problem in Pidgin, where we use glib's mainloop and GIOChannels because glib starts assigning the handle IDs sequentially starting from 1. But if an eventloop implementation ever returns a handle ID greater than the largest possible signed integer (2,147,483,647) then we won't be able to remove the watcher because purple_ssl_close() in sslconn.c only removes it if inpa > 0, and since it interprets inpa as a signed value then handles over 2,147,483,647 appear as negative numbers. I stumbled upon this when playing around with libevent, which can use epoll. My implementation generated a random handle ID which was sometimes greater than 2,147,483,647. I don't believe this breaks binary compatibility. And I don't think it breaks source compatibility, but I guess it might depend on what compiler you're using.

/** @page ui-ops UiOps structures

  When implementing a UI for libpurple, you need to fill in various UiOps
  structures:

   - #PurpleAccountUiOps
   - #PurpleBlistUiOps
   - #PurpleConnectionUiOps
   - #PurpleConversationUiOps
   - #PurpleCoreUiOps
   - #PurpleDebugUiOps
   - #PurpleDnsQueryUiOps
   - #PurpleEventLoopUiOps (without this, nothing will work and you will cry)
   - #PurpleIdleUiOps
   - #PurpleNotifyUiOps
   - #PurplePrivacyUiOps
   - #PurpleRequestUiOps
   - #PurpleRoomlistUiOps
   - #PurpleSoundUiOps
   - #PurpleWhiteboardUiOps
   - #PurpleXferUiOps

 */
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