Annotation of 43BSDTahoe/man/man3f/exit.3, revision 1.1.1.1

1.1       root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
                      2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
                      3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
                      4: .\"
                      5: .\"    @(#)exit.3f     6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
                      6: .\"
                      7: .TH EXIT 3F "May 15, 1985"
                      8: .UC 5
                      9: .SH NAME
                     10: exit \- terminate process with status
                     11: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     12: .B subroutine exit (status)
                     13: .br
                     14: .B integer status
                     15: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     16: .I Exit
                     17: flushes and closes all the process's files, and notifies the parent process
                     18: if it is executing a
                     19: .IR wait .
                     20: The low-order 8 bits of 
                     21: .I status
                     22: are available to the parent process.
                     23: (Therefore
                     24: .I status
                     25: should be in the range 0 \- 255)
                     26: .PP
                     27: This call will never return.
                     28: .PP
                     29: The C function
                     30: .I exit
                     31: may cause cleanup actions before the
                     32: final `sys exit'.
                     33: .SH FILES
                     34: .ie \nM /usr/ucb/lib/libF77.a
                     35: .el /usr/lib/libF77.a
                     36: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     37: exit(2), fork(2), fork(3F), wait(2), wait(3F)

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