ABORT(3)                             BSD                              ABORT(3)



NAME
     abort - generate a fault

DESCRIPTION
     abort executes an instruction that is illegal in user mode.  This causes
     a signal that normally terminates the process with a process dump to the
     file `node_data/system_logs/proc_dump.  Use tb(1) to examine the contents
     of this file.

SEE ALSO
     tb(1), sigvec(2), exit(2)

DIAGNOSTICS
     Usually "IOT trap" from the shell.

BUGS
     The abort() function does not flush standard I/O buffers.  Use
     fflush(3S).