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41 .Nd perform normal program termination
57 can be used to indicate successful and unsuccessful
58 termination, respectively.
60 Before termination it performs the following functions in the
62 .Bl -enum -offset indent
64 Call the functions registered with the
66 function, in the reverse order of their registration.
68 Flush all open output streams.
70 Close all open streams.
72 Unlink all files created with the
82 Standard C guarantees only that the values zero,
86 produce meaningful results.
87 POSIX extends this to guarantee that the
88 least significant 8 bits of
90 are preserved and returned to the parent via
92 Values outside the supported range 0-255 are bitwise-truncated; therefore,
93 negative values should not be used.
101 .Xr at_quick_exit 3 ,