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.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
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.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
.\" 1993 Michael Haardt, Ian Jackson.
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.\" Modified Wed Jul 21 23:02:38 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
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.TH _EXIT 2 "21 July 1993" Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
_exit \- terminate the current process
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B #include <unistd.h>
.sp
.BI "void _exit(int " status );
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B _exit
terminates the calling process immediately. Any open file descriptors
belonging to the process are closed; any children of the process are
inherited by process 1, init, and the process's parent is sent a
.B SIGCHLD
signal.
.I status
is returned to the parent process as the process's exit status, and
can be collected using one of the
.B wait
family of calls.
.SH "RETURN VALUE"
.B _exit
never returns.
.SH "CONFORMING TO"
SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3
.SH NOTES
.B _exit
does not call any functions registered with the ANSI C
.B atexit
function and does not flush standard I/O buffers. To do these things,
use
.BR exit (3).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR fork "(2), " execve "(2), " waitpid "(2), " wait4 "(2), " kill "(2), "
.BR wait "(2), " exit (3)
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