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document that exit() -> wait() only returns low bits

OPENBSD_2_9
deraadt 23 years ago
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@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
.\"
.\" $OpenBSD: exit.3,v 1.4 2000/04/20 13:50:02 aaron Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: exit.3,v 1.5 2001/03/08 20:43:42 deraadt Exp $
.\"
.Dd June 29, 1991
.Dt EXIT 3
@ -66,6 +66,15 @@ Unlink all files created with the
.Xr tmpfile 3
function.
.El
Following this,
.Fn exit
calls
.Xr _exit 2.
Note that typically
.Xr exit 2
only passes the lower 8 bits of
.Fa status
on to the parent, thus negative values have less meaning.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
The
.Fn exit
@ -74,6 +83,7 @@ function never returns.
.Xr _exit 2 ,
.Xr atexit 3 ,
.Xr intro 3 ,
.Xr sysexits 3 ,
.Xr tmpfile 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The


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