C process control: Difference between revisions

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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