ABORT(3,L)                  AIX Technical Reference                  ABORT(3,L)



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abort



PURPOSE

Generates a SIGABRT signal to terminate the current process.

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)

SYNTAX

int abort ( )

DESCRIPTION

The abort subroutine causes a SIGABRT signal to be sent to the current process,
usually terminating the process and producing a memory dump.

It is possible for the abort subroutine to return control if SIGABRT is caught
or ignored.  In this case, abort returns the value returned by the kill system
call.

If SIGABRT is neither caught nor ignored, and if the current directory is
writable, the abort subroutine produces a memory dump in a file named core in
the current directory.  The shell then displays the message:

  abort - core dumped

RELATED INFORMATION

In this book:  "exit, _exit," "kill, kill3, killpg," and "sigaction, sigvec,
signal."

The dbx command in AIX Operating System Commands Reference.

















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