EXIT(2)                 COMMAND REFERENCE                 EXIT(2)



NAME
     _exit - terminate a process

SYNOPSIS
     _exit(status)
     int status;

DESCRIPTION
     The command _exit terminates a process with the following
     consequences:

          all descriptors open in the calling process are closed;
          if the parent process of the calling process is
          executing a wait or is interested in the SIGCHLD
          signal, 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 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 language programs call the library routine exit(3c)
     which performs cleanup actions in the standard I/O library
     before calling _exit.

RETURN VALUE
     This call never returns.

SEE ALSO
     fork(2), wait(2), and exit(3c).























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