Viktor Dukhovni:
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> > On Apr 4, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Wietse Venema <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > According to RTFM, the exit() function does not return so it can't 'fail'.
> >
> > FreeBSD:
> > The exit() and _Exit() functions never return.
> > The _exit() system call can never return.
> > Linux:
> > The exit() function does not return.
> > (Similar text for _exit and_Exit).
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> Yes, but it can dead-lock trying to flush stdio buffers, and the like.
> And it can dead-lock with threads running malloc(), ... it is not safe
> to call in a signal handler, while _exit() should be.
Eray, can you please do the test and ignore this discussion?
Wietse
