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+.\" Hey Emacs! This file is -*- nroff -*- source.
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+.\" This manpage is Copyright (C) 1992 Drew Eckhardt;
+.\"                               1993 Michael Haardt, Ian Jackson.
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+.\" Modified Wed Jul 21 23:02:38 1993 by Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
+.\" Modified 2001-11-17, aeb
+.\"
+.TH _EXIT 2 2001-11-17 Linux "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+_exit, _Exit \- terminate the current process
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B #include <unistd.h>
+.sp
+.BI "void _exit(int " status );
+.sp
+.B #include <stdlib.h>
+.sp
+.BI "void _Exit(int " status );
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The function
+.B _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
+.B SIGCHLD
+signal.
+.LP
+The value
+.I status
+is returned to the parent process as the process's exit status, and
+can be collected using one of the
+.B wait
+family of calls.
+.LP
+The function
+.B _Exit
+is equivalent to
+.BR _exit .
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+These functions do not return.
+.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3.
+The function \fI_Exit()\fP was introduced by C99.
+.SH NOTES
+For a discussion on the effects of an exit, the transmission of
+exit status, zombie processes, signals sent, etc., see
+.BR exit (3).
+.LP
+The function
+.B _exit
+is like \fBexit()\fP, but does not call any functions registered
+with the ANSI C
+.B atexit
+function, nor any registered signal handlers. Whether it flushes
+standard I/O buffers and removes temporary files created with
+.BR tmpfile (3)
+is implementation-dependent.
+On the other hand,
+.B _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 \fItcflush()\fP before
+calling \fB_exit()\fP.
+Whether any pending I/O is cancelled, and which pending I/O may be
+cancelled upon \fB_exit()\fP, is implementation-dependent. 
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR execve (2),
+.BR fork (2),
+.BR kill (2),
+.BR wait (2),
+.BR wait4 (2),
+.BR waitpid (2),
+.BR exit (3),
+.BR termios (3)