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+<basefont size="3"> <a name="exit"></a> <a name="tag_03_131"></a><!-- exit -->
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+<center><font size="2">The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6<br>
+IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition<br>
+Copyright &copy; 2001-2004 The IEEE and The Open Group, All Rights reserved.</font></center><center><font color="red">A newer edition of this document exists <a href="http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/" target="_parent">here</a></font></center>
+
+<!--header end-->
+<hr size="2" noshade>
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_01"></a>NAME</h4>
+
+<blockquote>exit, _Exit, _exit - terminate a process</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_02"></a>SYNOPSIS</h4>
+
+<blockquote class="synopsis">
+<p><code><tt>#include &lt;<a href="../basedefs/stdlib.h.html">stdlib.h</a>&gt;<br>
+<br>
+ void exit(int</tt> <i>status</i><tt>);<br>
+ void _Exit(int</tt> <i>status</i><tt>);<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+ #include &lt;<a href="../basedefs/unistd.h.html">unistd.h</a>&gt;<br>
+ void _exit(int</tt> <i>status</i><tt>);<br>
+</tt></code></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_03"></a>DESCRIPTION</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>For <i>exit</i>() and <i>_Exit</i>(): <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img src=
+"../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> The functionality described on this reference page is aligned with the
+ISO&nbsp;C standard. Any conflict between the requirements described here and the ISO&nbsp;C standard is unintentional. This volume
+of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 defers to the ISO&nbsp;C standard. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border=
+"0"></p>
+
+<p>The value of <i>status</i> may be 0, EXIT_SUCCESS, EXIT_FAILURE, <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img
+src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;or any other value, though only the least significant 8 bits
+(that is, <i>status</i> &amp; 0377) shall be available to a waiting parent process. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt=
+"[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+
+<p>The <i>exit</i>() function shall first call all functions registered by <a href="../functions/atexit.html"><i>atexit</i>()</a>,
+in the reverse order of their registration, except that a function is called after any previously registered functions that had
+already been called at the time it was registered. Each function is called as many times as it was registered. If, during the call
+to any such function, a call to the <a href="../functions/longjmp.html"><i>longjmp</i>()</a> function is made that would terminate
+the call to the registered function, the behavior is undefined.</p>
+
+<p>If a function registered by a call to <a href="../functions/atexit.html"><i>atexit</i>()</a> fails to return, the remaining
+registered functions shall not be called and the rest of the <i>exit</i>() processing shall not be completed. If <i>exit</i>() is
+called more than once, the behavior is undefined.</p>
+
+<p>The <i>exit</i>() function shall then flush all open streams with unwritten buffered data, close all open streams, and remove
+all files created by <a href="../functions/tmpfile.html"><i>tmpfile</i>()</a>. Finally, control shall be terminated with the
+consequences described below.</p>
+
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> The
+<i>_Exit</i>() and <i>_exit</i>() functions shall be functionally equivalent. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]"
+border="0"></p>
+
+<p>The <i>_Exit</i>() <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt=
+"[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;and <i>_exit</i>() <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> functions
+shall not call functions registered with <a href="../functions/atexit.html"><i>atexit</i>()</a> nor any registered signal handlers.
+Whether open streams are flushed or closed, or temporary files are removed is implementation-defined. Finally, the calling process
+is terminated with the consequences described below.</p>
+
+<p>These functions shall terminate the calling process <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('CX')">CX</a>]</sup> <img src=
+"../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;with the following consequences: <img src="../images/opt-end.gif"
+alt="[Option End]" border="0"> <basefont size="2"></p>
+
+<dl>
+<dt><b>Note:</b></dt>
+
+<dd>These consequences are all extensions to the ISO&nbsp;C standard and are not further CX shaded. However, XSI extensions are
+shaded.</dd>
+</dl>
+
+<basefont size="3"> 
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>All of the file descriptors, directory streams, <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src=
+"../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;conversion descriptors, and message catalog descriptors <img src=
+"../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> &nbsp;open in the calling process shall be closed.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the parent process of the calling process is executing a <a href="../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a> or <a href=
+"../functions/waitpid.html"><i>waitpid</i>()</a>, <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src=
+"../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;and has neither set its SA_NOCLDWAIT flag nor set SIGCHLD to
+SIG_IGN, <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> it shall be notified of the calling process' termination
+and the low-order eight bits (that is, bits 0377) of <i>status</i> shall be made available to it. If the parent is not waiting, the
+child's status shall be made available to it when the parent subsequently executes <a href=
+"../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a> or <a href="../functions/waitpid.html"><i>waitpid</i>()</a>.</p>
+
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+The semantics of the <a href="../functions/waitid.html"><i>waitid</i>()</a> function shall be equivalent to <a href=
+"../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a>. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the parent process of the calling process is not executing a <a href="../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a> or <a href=
+"../functions/waitpid.html"><i>waitpid</i>()</a>, <sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src=
+"../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> &nbsp;and has neither set its SA_NOCLDWAIT flag nor set SIGCHLD to
+SIG_IGN, <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"> the calling process shall be transformed into a <i>zombie
+process</i>. A <i>zombie process</i> is an inactive process and it shall be deleted at some later time when its parent process
+executes <a href="../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a> or <a href="../functions/waitpid.html"><i>waitpid</i>()</a>.</p>
+
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+The semantics of the <a href="../functions/waitid.html"><i>waitid</i>()</a> function shall be equivalent to <a href=
+"../functions/wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a>. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Termination of a process does not directly terminate its children. The sending of a SIGHUP signal as described below indirectly
+terminates children in some circumstances.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Either:</p>
+
+<p>If the implementation supports the SIGCHLD signal, a SIGCHLD shall be sent to the parent process.</p>
+
+<p>Or:</p>
+
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+If the parent process has set its SA_NOCLDWAIT flag, or set SIGCHLD to SIG_IGN, the status shall be discarded, and the lifetime of
+the calling process shall end immediately. If SA_NOCLDWAIT is set, it is implementation-defined whether a SIGCHLD signal is sent to
+the parent process. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>The parent process ID of all of the calling process' existing child processes and zombie processes shall be set to the process
+ID of an implementation-defined system process. That is, these processes shall be inherited by a special system process.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+Each attached shared-memory segment is detached and the value of <i>shm_nattch</i> (see <a href=
+"../functions/shmget.html"><i>shmget</i>()</a>) in the data structure associated with its shared memory ID shall be decremented by
+1. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('XSI')">XSI</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+For each semaphore for which the calling process has set a <i>semadj</i> value (see <a href="semop.html"><i>semop</i>()</a> ), that
+value shall be added to the <i>semval</i> of the specified semaphore. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border=
+"0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the process is a controlling process, the SIGHUP signal shall be sent to each process in the foreground process group of the
+controlling terminal belonging to the calling process.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the process is a controlling process, the controlling terminal associated with the session shall be disassociated from the
+session, allowing it to be acquired by a new controlling process.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>If the exit of the process causes a process group to become orphaned, and if any member of the newly-orphaned process group is
+stopped, then a SIGHUP signal followed by a SIGCONT signal shall be sent to each process in the newly-orphaned process group.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('SEM')">SEM</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+All open named semaphores in the calling process shall be closed as if by appropriate calls to <a href=
+"../functions/sem_close.html"><i>sem_close</i>()</a>. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('ML')">ML</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0"> Any
+memory locks established by the process via calls to <a href="../functions/mlockall.html"><i>mlockall</i>()</a> or <a href=
+"../functions/mlock.html"><i>mlock</i>()</a> shall be removed. If locked pages in the address space of the calling process are also
+mapped into the address spaces of other processes and are locked by those processes, the locks established by the other processes
+shall be unaffected by the call by this process to <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>(). <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt=
+"[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('MF')">MF|SHM</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+Memory mappings that were created in the process shall be unmapped before the process is destroyed. <img src=
+"../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('TYM')">TYM</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+Any blocks of typed memory that were mapped in the calling process shall be unmapped, as if <a href=
+"../functions/munmap.html"><i>munmap</i>()</a> was implicitly called to unmap them. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt=
+"[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('MSG')">MSG</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+All open message queue descriptors in the calling process shall be closed as if by appropriate calls to <a href=
+"../functions/mq_close.html"><i>mq_close</i>()</a>. <img src="../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('AIO')">AIO</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+Any outstanding cancelable asynchronous I/O operations may be canceled. Those asynchronous I/O operations that are not canceled
+shall complete as if the <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>() operation had not yet occurred, but any associated signal notifications
+shall be suppressed. The <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>() operation may block awaiting such I/O completion. Whether any I/O is
+canceled, and which I/O may be canceled upon <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>(), is implementation-defined. <img src=
+"../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>Threads terminated by a call to <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>() shall not invoke their cancellation cleanup handlers or
+per-thread data destructors.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p><sup>[<a href="javascript:open_code('TRC')">TRC</a>]</sup> <img src="../images/opt-start.gif" alt="[Option Start]" border="0">
+If the calling process is a trace controller process, any trace streams that were created by the calling process shall be shut down
+as described by the <a href="../functions/posix_trace_shutdown.html"><i>posix_trace_shutdown</i>()</a> function, and any process'
+mapping of trace event names to trace event type identifiers built for these trace streams may be deallocated. <img src=
+"../images/opt-end.gif" alt="[Option End]" border="0"></p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_04"></a>RETURN VALUE</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>These functions do not return.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_05"></a>ERRORS</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>No errors are defined.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<hr>
+<div class="box"><em>The following sections are informative.</em></div>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_06"></a>EXAMPLES</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>None.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_07"></a>APPLICATION USAGE</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Normally applications should use <i>exit</i>() rather than <i>_Exit</i>() or <i>_exit</i>().</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_08"></a>RATIONALE</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<h5><a name="tag_03_131_08_01"></a>Process Termination</h5>
+
+<p>Early proposals drew a distinction between normal and abnormal process termination. Abnormal termination was caused only by
+certain signals and resulted in implementation-defined &quot;actions&quot;, as discussed below. Subsequent proposals distinguished three
+types of termination: <i>normal termination</i> (as in the current specification), <i>simple abnormal termination</i>, and
+<i>abnormal termination with actions</i>. Again the distinction between the two types of abnormal termination was that they were
+caused by different signals and that implementation-defined actions would result in the latter case. Given that these actions were
+completely implementation-defined, the early proposals were only saying when the actions could occur and how their occurrence could
+be detected, but not what they were. This was of little or no use to conforming applications, and thus the distinction is not made
+in this volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001.</p>
+
+<p>The implementation-defined actions usually include, in most historical implementations, the creation of a file named <b>core</b>
+in the current working directory of the process. This file contains an image of the memory of the process, together with
+descriptive information about the process, perhaps sufficient to reconstruct the state of the process at the receipt of the
+signal.</p>
+
+<p>There is a potential security problem in creating a <b>core</b> file if the process was set-user-ID and the current user is not
+the owner of the program, if the process was set-group-ID and none of the user's groups match the group of the program, or if the
+user does not have permission to write in the current directory. In this situation, an implementation either should not create a
+<b>core</b> file or should make it unreadable by the user.</p>
+
+<p>Despite the silence of this volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 on this feature, applications are advised not to create
+files named <b>core</b> because of potential conflicts in many implementations. Some implementations use a name other than
+<b>core</b> for the file; for example, by appending the process ID to the filename.</p>
+
+<h5><a name="tag_03_131_08_02"></a>Terminating a Process</h5>
+
+<p>It is important that the consequences of process termination as described occur regardless of whether the process called
+<i>_exit</i>() (perhaps indirectly through <i>exit</i>()) or instead was terminated due to a signal or for some other reason. Note
+that in the specific case of <i>exit</i>() this means that the <i>status</i> argument to <i>exit</i>() is treated in the same way
+as the <i>status</i> argument to <i>_exit</i>().</p>
+
+<p>A language other than C may have other termination primitives than the C-language <i>exit</i>() function, and programs written
+in such a language should use its native termination primitives, but those should have as part of their function the behavior of
+<i>_exit</i>() as described. Implementations in languages other than C are outside the scope of this version of this volume of
+IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, however.</p>
+
+<p>As required by the ISO&nbsp;C standard, using <b>return</b> from <i>main</i>() has the same behavior (other than with respect to
+language scope issues) as calling <i>exit</i>() with the returned value. Reaching the end of the <i>main</i>() function has the
+same behavior as calling <i>exit</i>(0).</p>
+
+<p>A value of zero (or EXIT_SUCCESS, which is required to be zero) for the argument <i>status</i> conventionally indicates
+successful termination. This corresponds to the specification for <i>exit</i>() in the ISO&nbsp;C standard. The convention is
+followed by utilities such as <a href="../utilities/make.html"><i>make</i></a> and various shells, which interpret a zero status
+from a child process as success. For this reason, applications should not call <i>exit</i>(0) or <i>_exit</i>(0) when they
+terminate unsuccessfully; for example, in signal-catching functions.</p>
+
+<p>Historically, the implementation-defined process that inherits children whose parents have terminated without waiting on them is
+called <i>init</i> and has a process ID of 1.</p>
+
+<p>The sending of a SIGHUP to the foreground process group when a controlling process terminates corresponds to somewhat different
+historical implementations. In System V, the kernel sends a SIGHUP on termination of (essentially) a controlling process. In 4.2
+BSD, the kernel does not send SIGHUP in a case like this, but the termination of a controlling process is usually noticed by a
+system daemon, which arranges to send a SIGHUP to the foreground process group with the <i>vhangup</i>() function. However, in 4.2
+BSD, due to the behavior of the shells that support job control, the controlling process is usually a shell with no other processes
+in its process group. Thus, a change to make <i>_exit</i>() behave this way in such systems should not cause problems with existing
+applications.</p>
+
+<p>The termination of a process may cause a process group to become orphaned in either of two ways. The connection of a process
+group to its parent(s) outside of the group depends on both the parents and their children. Thus, a process group may be orphaned
+by the termination of the last connecting parent process outside of the group or by the termination of the last direct descendant
+of the parent process(es). In either case, if the termination of a process causes a process group to become orphaned, processes
+within the group are disconnected from their job control shell, which no longer has any information on the existence of the process
+group. Stopped processes within the group would languish forever. In order to avoid this problem, newly orphaned process groups
+that contain stopped processes are sent a SIGHUP signal and a SIGCONT signal to indicate that they have been disconnected from
+their session. The SIGHUP signal causes the process group members to terminate unless they are catching or ignoring SIGHUP. Under
+most circumstances, all of the members of the process group are stopped if any of them are stopped.</p>
+
+<p>The action of sending a SIGHUP and a SIGCONT signal to members of a newly orphaned process group is similar to the action of 4.2
+BSD, which sends SIGHUP and SIGCONT to each stopped child of an exiting process. If such children exit in response to the SIGHUP,
+any additional descendants receive similar treatment at that time. In this volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, the signals
+are sent to the entire process group at the same time. Also, in this volume of IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, but not in 4.2 BSD,
+stopped processes may be orphaned, but may be members of a process group that is not orphaned; therefore, the action taken at
+<i>_exit</i>() must consider processes other than child processes.</p>
+
+<p>It is possible for a process group to be orphaned by a call to <a href="../functions/setpgid.html"><i>setpgid</i>()</a> or <a
+href="../functions/setsid.html"><i>setsid</i>()</a>, as well as by process termination. This volume of
+IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001 does not require sending SIGHUP and SIGCONT in those cases, because, unlike process termination,
+those cases are not caused accidentally by applications that are unaware of job control. An implementation can choose to send
+SIGHUP and SIGCONT in those cases as an extension; such an extension must be documented as required in <a href=
+"../basedefs/signal.h.html"><i>&lt;signal.h&gt;</i></a>.</p>
+
+<p>The ISO/IEC&nbsp;9899:1999 standard adds the <i>_Exit</i>() function that results in immediate program termination without
+triggering signals or <a href="../functions/atexit.html"><i>atexit</i>()</a>-registered functions. In
+IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, this is equivalent to the <i>_exit</i>() function.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_09"></a>FUTURE DIRECTIONS</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>None.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_10"></a>SEE ALSO</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p><a href="atexit.html"><i>atexit</i>()</a>, <a href="close.html"><i>close</i>()</a>, <a href="fclose.html"><i>fclose</i>()</a>
+, <a href="longjmp.html"><i>longjmp</i>()</a>, <a href="posix_trace_shutdown.html"><i>posix_trace_shutdown</i>()</a>, <a href=
+"posix_trace_trid_eventid_open.html"><i>posix_trace_trid_eventid_open</i>()</a>, <a href="semop.html"><i>semop</i>()</a>, <a
+href="shmget.html"><i>shmget</i>()</a>, <a href="sigaction.html"><i>sigaction</i>()</a>, <a href="wait.html"><i>wait</i>()</a>,
+<a href="waitid.html"><i>waitid</i>()</a>, <a href="waitpid.html"><i>waitpid</i>()</a>, the Base Definitions volume of
+IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1-2001, <a href="../basedefs/stdlib.h.html"><i>&lt;stdlib.h&gt;</i></a>, <a href=
+"../basedefs/unistd.h.html"><i>&lt;unistd.h&gt;</i></a></p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_11"></a>CHANGE HISTORY</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>First released in Issue 1. Derived from Issue 1 of the SVID.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_12"></a>Issue 5</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>The DESCRIPTION is updated for alignment with the POSIX Realtime Extension and the POSIX Threads Extension.</p>
+
+<p>Interactions with the SA_NOCLDWAIT flag and SIGCHLD signal are further clarified.</p>
+
+<p>The values of <i>status</i> from <i>exit</i>() are better described.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<h4><a name="tag_03_131_13"></a>Issue 6</h4>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Extensions beyond the ISO&nbsp;C standard are marked.</p>
+
+<p>The DESCRIPTION is updated for alignment with IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1j-2000 by adding semantics for typed memory.</p>
+
+<p>The following changes are made for alignment with the ISO/IEC&nbsp;9899:1999 standard:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+<p>The <i>_Exit</i>() function is included.</p>
+</li>
+
+<li>
+<p>The DESCRIPTION is updated.</p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The description of tracing semantics is added for alignment with IEEE&nbsp;Std&nbsp;1003.1q-2000.</p>
+
+<p>References to the <i>wait3</i>() function are removed.</p>
+
+<p>IEEE&nbsp;Std 1003.1-2001/Cor&nbsp;1-2002, item XSH/TC1/D6/16 is applied, correcting grammar in the DESCRIPTION.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
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