Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 13:50:07 +0100 (MET) From: j@uriah.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: fork() in unistd.h Message-ID: <199412281250.NAA07747@bonnie.tcd-dresden.de> In-Reply-To: <199412280206.TAA16982@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Dec 27, 94 07:06:49 pm
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As Don Yuniskis wrote:
|
| Greetings!
| /usr/include/unistd.h for 1.1.5.1R contains two (conflicting)
| prototypes for fork(). One is conditional on POSIX... should
| the other be inversely conditioned? Or, removed altogether??
conflicting? i've only noticed the conflict between fork() and vfork().
Anyway, the real reason is that Posix requires fork() to return a
pid_t, while the kernel internally (traditionally) uses an int for the
PID. So int would be the proper return type from the kernel POV, but
pid_t from the Posix view.
Change your unistd.h to pid_t, and live with it for 1.1.5.1.
--
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