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fidlee Well, the program is kind of boring, and I would not use that indenting style. If you change the printf to:

printf("Process id is %un",pid); ^

it will be a little more interesting. It returns an exit code of 025, that I did not trouble to look up. Probably because you left out

exit(0)

at the end, but it works just fine in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 ES.

I never heard of that book, but it might be OK. Doubless other people will recommend other books. I do not write in C anymore, preferring C++, and have only the Second Edition of "The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie (Prentice Hall).

For C++, I like "C++ Primer" (Third Edition) by Lippman and Lajoie as a text, "The Annotated C++ Reference Manual" by Peggy Ellis and Bjarne Stroustrup as a reference, and "The C++ Standard Library" by Josuttis for the libraries. This last one is pretty dry reading, and I would urge you not to start with it, but with the Lippman and Lajoie book if you want to learn C++.

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