'''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|coauthors=Peter Prinz|title=C in 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.
