Bug 6388 - fork man page
Summary: fork man page
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: man-pages
Version: 6.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Trond Eivind Glomsrxd
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-10-26 16:01 UTC by bcurran
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-05-30 18:01:15 UTC
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Description bcurran 1999-10-26 16:01:54 UTC
The man page for fork shows that it needs the unistd.h
header file.  This should be changed to sys/types.h.  A test
compile shows this:


#include <unistd.h>

int bozo(void)
{
	pid_t ret;
	ret = fork();
}


The compile line is: gcc -D_POSIX_SOURCE -c foo.c

> gcc -v
Reading specs from
/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/egcs-2.91.66/specs
gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)

Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2000-02-17 20:03:59 UTC
Alternatively, use __pid_t instead of pid_t - fork itself doesn't need
sys/types.h.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 2000-05-22 15:02:59 UTC
assigned to teg

Comment 3 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2000-05-30 18:01:59 UTC
Not a bug - fork needs only unistd.h.  You don't need to use the type
directly...


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