Chapter 25: Process Termination

This chapter describes what happens when a process terminates. We begin by describing the use of exit() and _exit() to terminate a process. We discuss the use of exit handlers to automatically perform cleanups when a process calls exit(). We also consider some interactions between fork(), stdio buffers, and exit().

25 Process Termination
25.1 Terminating a Process: _exit() and exit()
25.2 Details of Process Termination
25.3 Exit Handlers
25.4 Interactions Between fork(), stdio Buffers, and _exit()
25.5 Summary
25.6 Exercises