Here is an example I wrote long time ago. Basically, after you fork a child process and you wait
its exit status, you check the status using two Macros. WIFEXITED
is used to check if the process exited normally, and WEXITSTATUS
checks what the returned number is in case it returned normally:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/wait.h>
int main()
{
int number, statval;
printf("%d: I'm the parent !\n", getpid());
if(fork() == 0)
{
number = 10;
printf("PID %d: exiting with number %d\n", getpid(), number);
exit(number) ;
}
else
{
printf("PID %d: waiting for child\n", getpid());
wait(&statval);
if(WIFEXITED(statval))
printf("Child's exit code %d\n", WEXITSTATUS(statval));
else
printf("Child did not terminate with exit\n");
}
return 0;
}