EXIT(2)                 COMMAND REFERENCE                 EXIT(2)



NAME
     _exit - terminate a process

SYNOPSIS
     exit(status)
     int status;

DESCRIPTION
     exit terminates a process with the following consequences:

          All of the 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 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(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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