NAME

exit − terminate process with status

SYNOPSIS

subroutine exit (status)
integer status

DESCRIPTION

exit flushes and 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.  These 8 bits are shifted left 8 bits, and all other bits are zero.  (Therefore status should be in the range 256 − 65280)

This call will never return. 

The C function exit may cause cleanup actions before the final ‘sys exit’. 

If you call exit without an argument, you will get a warning message, and a zero will be automatically provided as an argument. 

FILES

libF77.a

SEE ALSO

exit(2), fork(2), fork(3f), wait(2), wait(3f)

Sun Release 4.1  —  Last change: 20 July 1992