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The
_Exit
function causes normal program termination to occur and control to be returned to the host environment. No functions registered by theatexit
function or signal handlers registered by thesignal
function are called. The status returned to the host environment is determined in the same way as for theexit
function. Whether open streams with unwritten buffered data are flushed, open streams are closed, or temporary files are removed is implementation-defined. The_Exit
function cannot return to its caller.
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