What is Exit (system call)?
{{lowercase}} [[File:Solaris forced job quit.png|thumb|300px|A program forced to die.]] '''exit''' in [[computing]] means to [[wikt:terminate|terminate]] a [[Task (computers)|task]] or [[Computer program|program]]. On many [[computer]] [[operating systems]], a [[Process (computing)|process]] is stopped by making a [[system call]], called exit. An exit in a [[Thread (computer science)|multithreading]] environment means that a thread of execution has stopped running. The [[operating system]] reclaims [[Computer data storage|memory]] that was used by the process. The process is said to be a ''dead process'' after it terminates. ==Related pages== * [[exit (command)]] [[Category:Computing]] {{tech-stub}}