Name
abort — cause abnormal program termination
DESCRIPTION
The abort
() function causes
abnormal program termination unless the signal SIGABRT is
caught and the signal handler does not return. If the
abort
() function causes program
termination, all open streams are closed and flushed.
If the SIGABRT signal is blocked or ignored, the
abort
() function will still
override it.
RETURN VALUE
The abort
() function never
returns.
CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99
SEE ALSO
sigaction(2), exit(3), raise(3)
Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
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Modified Sat Jul 24 21:46:21 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
Modified Fri Aug 4 10:51:53 2000 - patch from Joseph S. Myers
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