_EXIT(2) Linux Programmer's Manual _EXIT(2) NAME _exit - terminate the current process SYNOPSIS #include <unistd.h> void _exit(int status); DESCRIPTION _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. 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. RETURN VALUE _exit never returns. CONFORMING TO SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3 NOTES _exit does not call any functions registered with the ANSI C atexit function and does not flush standard I/O buffers. To do these things, use exit(3). SEE ALSO fork(2), execve(2), waitpid(2), wait4(2), kill(2), wait(2), exit(3) Linux 1993-07-21 _EXIT(2) <\pre> <\body> <\html>