lfpinit() signed or unsigned?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> >  * Internally, this type is sometimes used for time offsets.  In that 
> >  * context it is interpreted as signed and can only express offsets
> >  * up to a half cycle. Offsets are normally much, much smaller than that;
> >  * for an offset to have a value even as large as 1 second would be 
> >  * highly unusual. 
> 
> I think the "highly unusual" is misleading.
> 
> It happens often during initialization.  That probably includes laptops 
> waking up from power down.
> 
> Maybe "high unusual after initialization".

Thanks for the correction.
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