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    >   /* Canonicalize negative numbers to -1.  */
    >   if (mode < 0)
    >     mode = -1;

    I don't really object, but what problem would that solve?  The value
    of `mode' is not supposed to be negative unless it's -1.

That's the point--a user could specify -2 or -1000.
It may as well do something predictable.