Hi,
In socket programming, why do we have a variable type pid_t to represent process id ?? I found its size being the same that of integer...I am confused..cannot we use int instead to denote process id ??
Hi,
In socket programming, why do we have a variable type pid_t to represent process id ?? I found its size being the same that of integer...I am confused..cannot we use int instead to denote process id ??
A lot of things all have the same size as int, but that's no reason to make them all ints.
Besides, there's no reason to suppose that everyone else has a pid_t the same size as an int.
So using a pid_t for things which expect a pid_t ensures your code will remain portable.
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i got confused and asked this question as in
http://www.symbian.com/developer/tec..._tTypedef.html
i found pid_t to be defined the same type as that like int....that is why i got confused,
