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{{Short description|Functions of the C standard software library}}

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{{C Standard Library}}

'''C process control''' refers to a group of functions in the [[C standard library|standard library]] of the [[C programming language]] implementing basic process control operations.<ref>{{cite book|last=Crawford|first=Tony|coauthorsauthor2=Peter Prinz|title=C in a Nutshell|publisher=O'Reilly|___location=§16.11 -– ''Process Control''|date=December 2005|pages=618|isbn=0-596-00697-7}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf | title=ISO/IEC 9899:1999 specification | at=p. 315, § 7.20.4 "Communication with the environment" | accessdate=25 November 2011}}</ref> The process control operations include actions such as termination of the program with various levels of cleanup, running an external command interpreter or accessing the list of the environment operations.

==Overview of functions==

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! Description

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! rowspan=46 | Terminating <br>a program

| {{anchor|abort}}<code>[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/abort abort]</code>

| causes abnormal program termination (without cleaning up)

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| {{anchor|atexit}}<code>[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/atexit atexit]</code>

| registers a function to be called on exit() invocation

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| {{anchor|quick_exit}}<code>[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/quick_exit quick_exit]</code>

| causes normal program termination without cleaning up, but with IO buffers flushed ([[C11 (C standard revision)|C11]])

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| {{anchor|quick_exit}}<code>[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/at_quick_exit at_quick_exit]</code>

| registers a function to be called on quick_exit() invocation

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! rowspan=2 | Communicating with<br>the environment

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==External links==

{{wikibooks|C Programming|C program control operations|C Programming/C Reference}}

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