Hey all,
First post here, i'm (obvoisly) a newbie C programmer.
I started looking through some man pages and saw lots of data types i have never seen before, like size_t, pid_t, ect.
I looked in the header files and couldn't decifer what was what, IE they were typdefed to a datatype i've never seen before.
Is there somewhere where if defines what these datatypes represent in a easy to read manner? a man page?
Thanks!
My guess is, pid_t is in sys/types.h.Code:#include <sys/types.h> #include <unistd.h> pid_t fork(void);
Most of the time, you don't need to worry about the detail, since you would simply say
pid_t mypid = fork();
size_t is one of the few synthetic types which is defined by the C language itself.
It's the type of result returned by the sizeof operator
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