Re: What is the function to terminate to the OS with a given exit code?

Tim Josling <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
Organization GCC / Westnet
Message-ID <1197011884.6110.13.camel@tim-gcc>
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 22:23 +0100, Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Tim Josling <[email protected]>:
> 
> > I have spent about an hour looking in the docs for this function to no
> > avail. Peraps I should use the FFI?
> > 
> > In C it is (exit n)
> > 
> > In gcl it is (by n)
> > In SBCL it is (sb-ext:quit n)
> > In CLISP (EXT:EXIT &OPTIONAL status)
> > In CMU...
> > 
> > Also how should I have been able to find this?
> 
> (apropos "exit") might be a good start.  Disregarding at first the
> double-colon symbols, it shouldn't take too long to discover the
> following line in the output:
> 
> unix:unix-exit [function] (&optional (code 0))
> 
> ... after which (describe 'unix:unix-exit) gives you all the
> information you need.
> 
> - Harald

That's it!

Tim Josling
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