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Diffstat (limited to 'man3/exit.3')
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/man3/exit.3 b/man3/exit.3 index f51c557..0b8bab2 100644 --- a/man3/exit.3 +++ b/man3/exit.3 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ .\" could be listed on this page. See, for example, the list in the .\" POSIX exit(3p) page. .\" -.TH exit 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.TH exit 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7" .SH NAME exit \- cause normal process termination .SH LIBRARY @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Standard C library .SH SYNOPSIS .nf .B #include <stdlib.h> -.PP +.P .BI "[[noreturn]] void exit(int " status ); .fi .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ function causes normal process termination and the least significant byte of .I status (i.e., \fIstatus & 0xFF\fP) is returned to the parent (see .BR wait (2)). -.PP +.P All functions registered with .BR atexit (3) and @@ -53,14 +53,14 @@ If a function has been registered multiple times using or .BR on_exit (3), then it is called as many times as it was registered. -.PP +.P All open .BR stdio (3) streams are flushed and closed. Files created by .BR tmpfile (3) are removed. -.PP +.P The C standard specifies two constants, \fBEXIT_SUCCESS\fP and \fBEXIT_FAILURE\fP, that may be passed to @@ -85,8 +85,7 @@ T{ .BR exit () T} Thread safety MT-Unsafe race:exit .TE -.sp 1 -.PP +.P The .BR exit () function uses a global variable that is not protected, @@ -110,7 +109,7 @@ removes registrations created using .BR atexit (3) and .BR on_exit (3). -.PP +.P The use of .B EXIT_SUCCESS and @@ -119,12 +118,12 @@ is slightly more portable (to non-UNIX environments) than the use of 0 and some nonzero value like 1 or \-1. In particular, VMS uses a different convention. -.PP +.P BSD has attempted to standardize exit codes (which some C libraries such as the GNU C library have also adopted); see the file .IR <sysexits.h> . -.PP +.P After .BR exit (), the exit status must be transmitted to the @@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ This allows the parent to subsequently use .BR waitpid (2) (or similar) to learn the termination status of the child; at that point the zombie process slot is released. -.PP +.P If the implementation supports the .B SIGCHLD signal, this signal @@ -171,7 +170,7 @@ is sent a signal, and the terminal is disassociated from this session, allowing it to be acquired by a new controlling process. -.PP +.P If the exit of the process causes a process group to become orphaned, and if any member of the newly orphaned process group is stopped, then a @@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ sent to each process in this process group. See .BR setpgid (2) for an explanation of orphaned process groups. -.PP +.P Except in the above cases, where the signalled processes may be children of the terminating process, termination of a process does |