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| author |   deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2001-03-08 20:43:42 +0000 |
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| committer | deraadt <deraadt@openbsd.org> | 2001-03-08 20:43:42 +0000 |
| commit | ad9bd2c5a0930129a0fca0bca8842353d9bd365f (patch) | |
| tree | 35e562140faf3066d3023566a039066afbe4cc1a /lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 | |
| parent | Put "Symbios" in the NAME so man -k will find it; ian@darwinsys.com (diff) | |
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document that exit() -> wait() only returns low bits
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 index a17c1805f2a..cecc020d0fb 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 @@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: exit.3,v 1.4 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: exit.3,v 1.5 2001/03/08 20:43:42 deraadt Exp $ .\" .Dd June 29, 1991 .Dt EXIT 3 @@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ Unlink all files created with the .Xr tmpfile 3 function. .El +Following this, +.Fn exit +calls +.Xr _exit 2. +Note that typically +.Xr exit 2 +only passes the lower 8 bits of +.Fa status +on to the parent, thus negative values have less meaning. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn exit @@ -74,6 +83,7 @@ function never returns. .Xr _exit 2 , .Xr atexit 3 , .Xr intro 3 , +.Xr sysexits 3 , .Xr tmpfile 3 .Sh STANDARDS The |