1.\" $NetBSD: abort.3,v 1.13 2012/06/12 21:16:17 jdf Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 8.\" Processing Systems. 9.\" 10.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 11.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 12.\" are met: 13.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 15.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 16.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 17.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 18.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" from: @(#)abort.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 35.\" 36.Dd August 11, 2002 37.Dt ABORT 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm abort 41.Nd cause abnormal program termination 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In stdlib.h 46.Ft void 47.Fn abort void 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn abort 51function causes abnormal program termination to occur, unless the 52signal 53.Dv SIGABRT 54is being caught and the signal handler does not return. 55.Pp 56Calling the 57.Fn abort 58function results in temporary files being removed. 59Any open streams are flushed and closed. 60.Sh RETURN VALUES 61The 62.Fn abort 63function 64never returns. 65.Sh SEE ALSO 66.Xr sigaction 2 , 67.Xr exit 3 68.Sh STANDARDS 69The 70.Fn abort 71function 72conforms to 73.St -ansiC . 74