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_EXIT(2)                   Linux Programmer's Manual                  _EXIT(2)



 

NAME


       _exit, _Exit - terminate the calling process

 

SYNOPSIS


       #include 

       void _exit(int status);

       #include 

       void _Exit(int status);

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       _Exit(): _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _ISOC99_SOURCE; or cc -std=c99

 

DESCRIPTION






       The function _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 par-
       ent is sent a SIGCHLD signal.

       The value status is returned to the parent  process  as  the  process's
       exit  status,  and  can be collected using one of the wait(2) family of
       calls.

       The function _Exit() is equivalent to _exit().

 

RETURN VALUE


       These functions do not return.

 

CONFORMING TO


       SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD.  The function  _Exit()  was  introduced  by
       C99.

 

NOTES


       For  a  discussion  on the effects of an exit, the transmission of exit
       status, zombie processes, signals sent, etc., see exit(3).

       The function _exit() is like exit(3), but does not call  any  functions
       registered  with  atexit(3) or on_exit(3).  Whether it flushes standard
       I/O buffers and removes temporary  files  created  with  tmpfile(3)  is
       implementation-dependent.   On  the other hand, _exit() does close open
       file descriptors, and this may cause  an  unknown  delay,  waiting  for
       pending  output to finish.  If the delay is undesired, it may be useful
       to call functions like tcflush(3) before calling _exit().  Whether  any
       pending  I/O  is  canceled,  and which pending I/O may be canceled upon
       _exit(), is implementation-dependent.

 

SEE ALSO


       execve(2), exit_group(2), fork(2), kill(2),  wait(2),  wait4(2),  wait-
       pid(2), atexit(3), exit(3), on_exit(3), termios(3)

 

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Linux                             2007-07-26                          _EXIT(2)