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I'm SOOOOO stupid!!!!!<br />
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I don't know how I missed that.<br />
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thanks!!!!!
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I'm SOOOOO stupid!!!!!

I don't know how I missed that.


thanks!!!!!

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Out of curioisity. &nbsp; I've been away from EE for a few months now and I'm finidinmg it now has a bizzare layout. &nbsp;the questions themelfs are scrolled WAY of the right side of the &nbsp;page. &nbsp; Are other people experieincing this? &nbsp;Is this under transition?
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Out of curioisity.   I've been away from EE for a few months now and I'm finidinmg it now has a bizzare layout.  the questions themelfs are scrolled WAY of the right side of the  page.   Are other people experieincing this?  Is this under transition?

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Under netscape/mozilla, the questions are way on the right side, but konqueror and opera display EE pages normally. IE displays them correctly too.<br />

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Under netscape/mozilla, the questions are way on the right side, but konqueror and opera display EE pages normally. IE displays them correctly too.


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If you're having problems using the new look, you can still access the old look by prefixing oldlook.<br />
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This is for a C++ program.<br />
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I have a program where I fork and exec to create a child process then waitpid to wait for it to end. &nbsp;Then I need to get the value the child process returned but I cannot seem to find any system calls to do this. &nbsp;How do I do this? &nbsp; (I probably just need the name of the system call, I can probalby take it from there.)
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This is for a C++ program.

I have a program where I fork and exec to create a child process then waitpid to wait for it to end.  Then I need to get the value the child process returned but I cannot seem to find any system calls to do this.  How do I do this?   (I probably just need the name of the system call, I can probalby take it from there.)

How do I get a child-process's return value

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