EXIT(2)                 GENIX Programmer's Manual                 EXIT(2)



      NAME
           exit - terminate process

      SYNOPSIS
           exit(status)
           int status;

           _exit(status)
           int status;

      DESCRIPTION
           Exit is the normal means of terminating a process.  Exit closes  all
           the process's files and notifies the parent process if it is execut-
           ing a wait.  The low-order 8 bits of status  are  available  to  the
           parent process.

           This call can never return.

           The C function exit may cause cleanup actions before the final  `sys
           exit'.   The  function  _exit circumvents all cleanup, and should be
           used to terminate a child process after a  fork(2)  or  vfork(2)  to
           avoid flushing buffered output twice.

      SEE ALSO
           fork(2), vfork(2), wait(2)






























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