Name
on_exit — register a function to be called at normal process termination
Synopsis
#include <stdlib.h>
int
on_exit( |
void (*function)(int, void
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void *arg); |
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DESCRIPTION
The on_exit() function
registers the given function to be called at normal
process termination, whether via exit(3) or via return from
the program's main(). The
function is passed
the status argument given to the last call to exit(3) and the arg argument from on_exit().
The same function may be registered multiple times: it is called once for each registration.
When a child process is created via fork(2), it inherits copies of its parent's registrations. Upon a successful call to one of the exec(3) functions, all registrations are removed.
RETURN VALUE
The on_exit() function
returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise it returns a
nonzero value.
CONFORMING TO
This function comes from SunOS 4, but is also present in libc4, libc5 and glibc. It no longer occurs in Solaris (SunOS 5). Avoid this function, and use the standard atexit(3) instead.
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.52 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man−pages/.
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