ABORT(3,L) AIX Technical Reference ABORT(3,L) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- abort PURPOSE Generates a SIGABRT signal to terminate the current process. LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc.a) SYNTAX int abort ( ) DESCRIPTION The abort subroutine causes a SIGABRT signal to be sent to the current process, usually terminating the process and producing a memory dump. It is possible for the abort subroutine to return control if SIGABRT is caught or ignored. In this case, abort returns the value returned by the kill system call. If SIGABRT is neither caught nor ignored, and if the current directory is writable, the abort subroutine produces a memory dump in a file named core in the current directory. The shell then displays the message: abort - core dumped RELATED INFORMATION In this book: "exit, _exit," "kill, kill3, killpg," and "sigaction, sigvec, signal." The dbx command in AIX Operating System Commands Reference. Processed November 7, 1990 ABORT(3,L) 1