On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:29 PM, Andres Perera <andres.p@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 6:35 AM, Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> + uintmax_t pid; > > pid_t is always an signed type, therefore unintmax_t does not make > sense as a catch all value I only catch real process id. In practice we don't have processes with negative pid_t, do we? I can't find any document about this, but at least waitpid seems to treat negative pid (except -1) just as an indicator while the true pid is the positive counterpart. > fork() returns -1 on failure, and its return type is pid_t. i don't > know what fantasy unix system has an unsigned pid_t -- Duy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html