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NAME
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exits, _exits, exitcode, atexit, atexitdont – terminate process,
process cleanup
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SYNOPSIS
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#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
void _exits(char *msg)
void exits(char *msg)
int exitcode(char *msg)
int atexit(void(*)(void))
void atexitdont(void(*)(void))
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DESCRIPTION
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Exits is the conventional way to terminate a process. _Exits also
terminates a process but does not call the registered atexit handlers
(q.v.). They can never return.
Msg conventionally includes a brief (maximum length ERRLEN) explanation
of the reason for exiting, or a null pointer or empty string to
indicate normal termination. The string is passed to the parent
process, prefixed by the name and process id of the exiting process,
when the parent does a wait(3).
Before calling _exits with msg as an argument, exits calls in
reverse order all the functions recorded by atexit.
Atexit records fn as a function to be called by exits. It returns
zero if it failed, nonzero otherwise. A typical use is to register
a cleanup routine for an I/O package. To simplify programs that
fork or share memory, exits only calls those atexit-registered
functions that were registered by the same process as that calling
exits.
Calling atexit twice (or more) with the same function argument
causes exits to invoke the function twice (or more).
There is a limit to the number of exit functions that will be
recorded; atexit returns 0 if that limit has been reached.
Atexitdont cancels a previous registration of an exit function.
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SOURCE
SEE ALSO
BUGS
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Because of limitations of Unix, the exit status of a process can
only be an 8-bit integer. Exits and _exits treat null or empty
exit status as exit code 0 and call exitcode to translate any
other string into an exit code. By default, the library provides
an exitcode that maps all messages to 1. Applications may find
it useful to provide their own implementations
of exitcode .
Exit codes 97 through 99 are used by the thread library to signal
internal synchronization errors between the main program and a
proxy process that implements backgrounding.
To avoid name conflicts with the underlying system, atexit and
atexitdont are preprocessor macros defined as p9atexit and p9atexitdont;
see intro(3).
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