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The _exit function is the primitive used for process termination by exit. It is declared in the header file unistd.h.
The _exit function is the primitive for causing a process to terminate with status status. Calling this function does not execute cleanup functions registered with atexit or on_exit.
The _Exit function is the ISO C equivalent to _exit. The ISO C committee members were not sure whether the definitions of _exit and _Exit were compatible so they have not used the POSIX name.
This function was introduced in ISO C99 and is declared in stdlib.h.
When a process terminates for any reason--either because the program terminates, or as a result of a signal--the following things happen:
All open file descriptors in the process are closed. Low-Level I/O. Note that streams are not flushed automatically when the process terminates; see I/O on Streams.
A process exit status is saved to be reported back to the parent process via wait or waitpid; see Process Completion. If the program exited, this status includes as its low-order 8 bits the program exit status.
Any child processes of the process being terminated are assigned a new parent process. (On most systems, including GNU, this is the init process, with process ID 1.)
A SIGCHLD signal is sent to the parent process.
If the process is a session leader that has a controlling terminal, then a SIGHUP signal is sent to each process in the foreground job, and the controlling terminal is disassociated from that session. Job Control.
If termination of a process causes a process group to become orphaned, and any member of that process group is stopped, then a SIGHUP signal and a SIGCONT signal are sent to each process in the group. Job Control.
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