NAME

       _exit, _Exit - terminate the calling process

SYNOPSIS

       #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 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L;
           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 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().

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, and so on, 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.

SEE ALSO

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

COLOPHON

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