What is the correct printf specifier for printing pid_t

Question

I'm currently using a explicit cast to long and using %ld for printing pid_t, is there a specifier such as %z for size_t for pid_t?

If not what the best way of printing pid_t?

Answer 1

There's no such specifier. I think what you're doing (casting the pid_t to long and printing it with "%ld") is fine; you could use an even wider int type, but there's no implementation where pid_t is bigger than long and probably never will be.