DESCRIPTION

     _exit terminates the calling process immediately.  Any  open
     file  descriptors  belonging  to the process are closed; any
     children of the process are inherited by  process  1,  init,
     and the process's parent is sent a SIGCHLD signal.

     status is returned to the parent process  as  the  process's
     exit status, and can be collected using one of the wait fam-
     ily of calls.

RETURN VALUE

     _exit never returns.

CONFORMING TO

     SVr4, SVID, POSIX, X/OPEN, BSD 4.3

NOTES

     _exit does not call any functions registered with the ANSI C
     atexit  function and does not flush standard I/O buffers. To
     do these things, use exit(3).

SEE ALSO

     fork(2), execve(2), waitpid(2), wait(2), exit(3)