Clarify that atexit/on_exit are not called because those are called only on normal process termination (as documented on their respective manual pages). Clarify the status reported by wait*() functions. The requirement comes from POSIX specification. Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@xxxxxxxxxx> --- man3/abort.3 | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) diff --git a/man3/abort.3 b/man3/abort.3 index c63eace5e..6d1638033 100644 --- a/man3/abort.3 +++ b/man3/abort.3 @@ -47,6 +47,16 @@ function will still terminate the process. It does this by restoring the default disposition for .B SIGABRT and then raising the signal for a second time. +.PP +As with other cases of abnormal termination the functions registered with +.BR atexit "(3) and " on_exit (3) +are not called. The status made available to +.BR wait "(2), " waitid "(2), or " waitpid (2) +by +.BR abort () +shall be that of a process terminated by the +.BR SIGABRT +signal. .SH RETURN VALUE The .BR abort () -- 2.41.0
