Formatted signal names

[thirdparty/man-pages.git] / man3 / exit.3

diff --git a/man3/exit.3 b/man3/exit.3
index 69aa0ef5ae49554809d47cafd5803374ca8d2b12..a3411bd820ea4b635eb3417340149b9b6107b44e 100644 (file)
--- a/man3/exit.3
+++ b/man3/exit.3
@@ -95,7 +95,11 @@ calls either
 or
 .BR longjmp (3).
 .LP
-The use of EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE is slightly more portable
+The use of
+.B EXIT_SUCCESS
+and
+.B EXIT_FAILURE
+is slightly more portable
 (to non-Unix environments) than the use of 0 and some non-zero value
 like 1 or \-1.
 In particular, VMS uses a different convention.
@@ -109,8 +113,12 @@ the exit status must be transmitted to the
 parent process.
 There are three cases.
 If the parent has set
-SA_NOCLDWAIT, or has set the SIGCHLD handler to SIG_IGN, the
-status is discarded.
+.BR SA_NOCLDWAIT ,
+or has set the
+.B SIGCHLD
+handler to
+.BR SIG_IGN ,
+the status is discarded.
 If the parent was waiting on the child
 it is notified of the exit status.
 In both cases the exiting
@@ -124,21 +132,32 @@ it later calls one of the
 .BR wait (2)
 functions.
 .LP
-If the implementation supports the SIGCHLD signal, this signal
+If the implementation supports the
+.BR SIGCHLD
+signal, this signal
 is sent to the parent.
-If the parent has set SA_NOCLDWAIT,
-it is undefined whether a SIGCHLD signal is sent.
+If the parent has set
+.BR SA_NOCLDWAIT ,
+it is undefined whether a
+.B SIGCHLD
+signal is sent.
 .LP
 If the process is a session leader and its controlling terminal
 is the controlling terminal of the session, then each process in
 the foreground process group of this controlling terminal
-is sent a SIGHUP signal, and the terminal is disassociated
+is sent a
+.B SIGHUP
+signal, and the terminal is disassociated
 from this session, allowing it to be acquired by a new controlling
 process.
 .LP
 If the exit of the process causes a process group to become orphaned,
 and if any member of the newly orphaned process group is stopped,
-then a SIGHUP signal followed by a SIGCONT signal will be
+then a
+.B SIGHUP
+signal followed by a
+.B SIGCONT
+signal will be
 sent to each process in this process group.
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR _exit (2),