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| author | Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-06 19:23:28 +0000 |
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| committer | Garrett Wollman <wollman@FreeBSD.org> | 2002-09-06 19:23:28 +0000 |
| commit | 2c5db8c62d3f64e011ca567fd3c59e07ab295690 (patch) | |
| tree | ab253f97e2e697b776a8effe176e15455cf1d674 /lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 | |
| parent | 99b57e408b9245a9b56e47f99749144838cfedcb (diff) | |
| download | src-2c5db8c62d3f64e011ca567fd3c59e07ab295690.tar.gz src-2c5db8c62d3f64e011ca567fd3c59e07ab295690.zip | |
Include some verbage about not calling exit() from functions registered
by atexit().
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=103036
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 b/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 index f94d199dcd73..bbe0d1faee32 100644 --- a/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 +++ b/lib/libc/stdlib/exit.3 @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ .\" @(#)exit.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 4, 1993 +.Dd September 6, 2002 .Dt EXIT 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -79,6 +79,17 @@ and If portability is not a concern, you may use the values described in .Xr sysexits 3 . +.Pp +Note that +.Fn exit +does nothing to prevent bottomless recursion should a function registered +using +.Xr atexit 3 +itself call +.Fn exit . +Such functions should call +.Xr _exit 2 +instead (although this has other effects as well which may not be desired). .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn exit |