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  • Thanks, @SparKot. I'm not sure how your answer knows a priori that pid_t is an int rather than, say, a long. Separately, I don't think that linked post is germane: I want the data type max, not the max value the system will assign (which could be lower). Commented Oct 11, 2012 at 14:21