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EXIT(2)                     BSD System Calls Manual                    EXIT(2)

NAME
     _exit -- terminate the calling process

SYNOPSIS
     #include <unistd.h>

     void
     _exit(int status);

DESCRIPTION
     The _exit() function terminates a process, with the following consequences:

     oo   All of the descriptors that were open in the calling process are closed.  This may entail delays;
         for example, waiting for output to drain.  A process in this state may not be killed, as it is
         already dying.

     oo   If the parent process of the calling process has an outstanding wait call or catches the SIGCHLD
         signal, it is notified of the calling process's termination; the status is set as defined by
         wait(2).

     oo   The parent process-ID of all of the calling process's existing child processes are set to 1; the
         initialization process (see the DEFINITIONS section of intro(2)) inherits each of these processes.

     oo   If the termination of the process causes any process group to become orphaned (usually because the
         parents of all members of the group have now exited; see ``orphaned process group'' in intro(2)),
         and if any member of the orphaned group is stopped, the SIGHUP signal and the SIGCONT signal are
         sent to all members of the newly-orphaned process group.

     oo   If the process is a controlling process (see intro(2)), the SIGHUP signal is sent to the foreground
         process group of the controlling terminal.  All current access to the controlling terminal is
         revoked.

     Most C programs call the library routine exit(3), which flushes buffers, closes streams, unlinks tempo-rary temporary
     rary files, etc., before calling _exit().

RETURN VALUE
     _exit() can never return.

SEE ALSO
     fork(2), sigaction(2), wait(2), exit(3)

STANDARDS
     The _exit function is defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (``POSIX.1'').

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