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EXIT(2)                       System Calls Manual                      EXIT(2)

NAME
       exit, _exit - terminate a process

SYNOPSIS
       void _exit(int status)

DESCRIPTION
       _exit terminates a process with the following consequences:

              All  of  the descriptors open in the calling process are closed.
              This may entail delays,  for  example,  waiting  for  output  to
              drain;  a  process  in  this  state  may not be killed, as it is
              already dying.

              If the parent process of the calling process is executing a wait
              or  is  interested in the SIGCHLD signal (Minix-vmd), then it is
              notified of the calling process's termination and the  low-order
              eight bits of status are made available to it; see wait(2).

              The  parent  process ID of all of the calling process's existing
              child processes  are  also  set  to  1.   This  means  that  the
              initialization  process  (see  intro(2))  inherits each of these
              processes as well.

       Most C programs  call  the  library  routine  exit(3),  which  performs
       cleanup actions in the standard I/O library before calling _exit.

RETURN VALUE
       This call never returns.

SEE ALSO
       fork(2), sigaction(2), wait(2), exit(3).

4th Berkeley Distribution        May 22, 1986                          EXIT(2)
NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | SEE ALSO