QUIT

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 3/20/81
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NAME

quit - print message and exit

SYNOPSIS

quit (status, format [, arg ] ... )
int status;
char *format;

DESCRIPTION

quit is a means of terminating a process with an error message.

This call should never return.

quit prints on standard error the message specified by the printf(3) argument list format [, arg]... then exits.

The first argument, status, will be the argument passed to exit(2) and this is the process's return code. All of the process's files will be closed.

HISTORY

13-Nov-86 Andi Swimmer (andi) at Carnegie-Mellon University: Revised for 4.3.
20-Mar-81 Dale Moore (dwm) at Carnegie-Mellon University: Changed to call _doprnt instead of fprintf.
06-Dec-79 Steven Shafer (sas) at Carnegie-Mellon University: Created.