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EXIT_FAILURE

(3const)

termination status constants

Library functionsmanpages-dev 6.9.1-1also documents EXIT_SUCCESS
#include <stdlib.h> #define EXIT_SUCCESS 0 #define EXIT_FAILURE /* nonzero */

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc)

DESCRIPTION

EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE represent a successful and unsuccessful exit status respectively, and can be used as arguments to the exit(3) function.

STANDARDS

C11, POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY

C89, POSIX.1-2001.

EXAMPLES

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{

FILE *fp;
if (argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <file>\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
fp = fopen(argv[1], "r");
if (fp == NULL) {
perror(argv[1]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
/* Other code omitted */
fclose(fp);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }

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