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.

BUGS

The implementation of quit depends on a routine named _doprnt. Although fprintf and printf on Vax and PDP11 UNIX are implemented with this routine, other UNIX systems might not implement them this way.