1.\" $NetBSD: abort.3,v 1.10 2002/08/10 16:51:26 yamt 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 19.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 20.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 21.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 22.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 23.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 24.\" without specific prior written permission. 25.\" 26.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 27.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 28.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 29.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 30.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 31.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 32.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 33.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 34.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 35.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 36.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 37.\" 38.\" from: @(#)abort.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 39.\" 40.Dd August 11, 2002 41.Dt ABORT 3 42.Os 43.Sh NAME 44.Nm abort 45.Nd cause abnormal program termination 46.Sh LIBRARY 47.Lb libc 48.Sh SYNOPSIS 49.Fd #include \*[Lt]stdlib.h\*[Gt] 50.Ft void 51.Fn abort void 52.Sh DESCRIPTION 53The 54.Fn abort 55function causes abnormal program termination to occur, unless the 56signal 57.Dv SIGABRT 58is being caught and the signal handler does not return. 59.Pp 60Calling the 61.Fn abort 62function results in temporary files being removed. 63Any open streams are flushed and closed. 64.Sh RETURN VALUES 65The 66.Nm abort 67function 68never returns. 69.Sh SEE ALSO 70.Xr sigaction 2 , 71.Xr exit 3 72.Sh STANDARDS 73The 74.Fn abort 75function 76conforms to 77.St -ansiC . 78