C process control: Difference between revisions

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! rowspan=4 | Terminating <br>a program

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

| causes abnormal program termination (without cleaning up)

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| {{anchor|exit}}<code>{{man|sh|[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/exit|SUS||inline}} exit]</code>

| causes normal program termination with cleaning up

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| {{anchor|_Exit}}<code>{{man|sh|[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/_Exit|SUS||inline}} _Exit]</code>

| causes normal program termination without cleaning up ([[C99]])

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

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

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

| {{anchor|getenv}}<code>{{man|sh|[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/getenv|SUS||inline}} getenv]</code>

| accesses the list of the environment variables

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| {{anchor|system}}<code>{{man|sh|[http://en.cppreference.com/w/c/program/system|SUS||inline}} system]</code>

| calls the host environment's command processor

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