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EXIT(2)                       System Calls Manual                      EXIT(2)

NAME
       exit - terminate process

SYNOPSIS
       exit(status)
       int status;

       _exit(status)
       int status;

DESCRIPTION
       Exit is the normal means of terminating a process.  Exit closes all the
       process's  files  and  notifies the parent process if it is executing a
       wait.  The low-order 8 bits of  status  are  available  to  the  parent
       process.

       This call can never return.

       The  C  function  exit  may cause cleanup actions before the final ‘sys
       exit'.  The function _exit circumvents all cleanup, and should be  used
       to terminate a child process after a fork(2) to avoid flushing buffered
       output twice.

SEE ALSO
       fork(2), wait(2)

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