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_EXIT(2) Linux Programmer's Manual _EXIT(2) NAME _exit, _Exit - terminate the current process SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> void _exit(int status); #include <stdlib.h> void _Exit(int status); 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 family of calls. The function _Exit is equivalent to _exit. RETURN VALUE These functions do not return. CONFORMING TO SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3. The function _Exit() was intro- duced 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(), but does not call any functions reg- istered with the ANSI C atexit function, nor any registered signal han- dlers. 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() before calling _exit(). Whether any pending I/O is cancelled, and which pend- ing I/O may be cancelled upon _exit(), is implementation-dependent. SEE ALSO fork(2), execve(2), waitpid(2), wait4(2), kill(2), wait(2), exit(3), termios(3) Linux 2001-11-17 _EXIT(2)
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