> On Apr 4, 2018, at 1:31 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote: > > 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).
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. -- Viktor.