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_EXIT(2) Linux Programmer's Manual _EXIT(2)
_exit, _Exit - terminate the calling process
#include <unistd.h>
void _exit(int status);
#include <stdlib.h>
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
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 parent 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().
These functions do not return.
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD. The function _Exit() was introduced by C99.
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.
In glibc up to version 2.3, the _exit() wrapper function invoked the kernel
system call of the same name. Since glibc 2.3, the wrapper function invokes
exit_group(2), in order to terminate all of the threads in a process.
execve(2), exit_group(2), fork(2), kill(2), wait(2), wait4(2), waitpid(2),
atexit(3), exit(3), on_exit(3), termios(3)
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Linux 2008-11-27 _EXIT(2)