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10 .Nd abnormal process termination
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14 .Fn "noreturn void abort" "void"
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18 causes abnormal process termination to occur.
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23 will be raised, as if by
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25 If the signal is not being caught, or the handler which catches the signal
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28 will then proceed to cause the process to terminate with a failure exit status.
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29 It is implementation defined whether any open
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31 streams are flushed before the process exits.
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33 .Sh IMPLEMENTATION NOTES
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34 PDCLib implements termination (in the case that the
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36 handler returns) by calling
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37 .Fn _Exit EXIT_FAILURE .
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38 Therefore, stream flushing rules for
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40 follow those defined for
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