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 25.7.1 Normal Termination
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 A process terminates normally when its program signals it is done by
 calling 'exit'.  Returning from 'main' is equivalent to calling 'exit',
 and the value that 'main' returns is used as the argument to 'exit'.
 
  -- Function: void exit (int STATUS)
      Preliminary: | MT-Unsafe race:exit | AS-Unsafe corrupt | AC-Unsafe
      corrupt lock |  POSIX Safety Concepts.
 
      The 'exit' function tells the system that the program is done,
      which causes it to terminate the process.
 
      STATUS is the program's exit status, which becomes part of the
      process' termination status.  This function does not return.
 
    Normal termination causes the following actions:
 
   1. Functions that were registered with the 'atexit' or 'on_exit'
      functions are called in the reverse order of their registration.
      This mechanism allows your application to specify its own "cleanup"
      actions to be performed at program termination.  Typically, this is
      used to do things like saving program state information in a file,
      or unlocking locks in shared data bases.
 
   2. All open streams are closed, writing out any buffered output data.
      See  Closing Streams.  In addition, temporary files opened
      with the 'tmpfile' function are removed; see  Temporary
      Files.
 
   3. '_exit' is called, terminating the program.   Termination
      Internals.
 

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