+If the parent process of the calling process is executing a
+.I wait
+or is interested in the SIGCHLD signal,
+then it is notified of the calling process's termination and
+the low-order eight bits of \fIstatus\fP are made available to it;
+see
+.IR wait (2).
+.PP
+The parent process ID of all of the calling process's existing child
+processes are also set to 1. This means that the initialization process
+(see
+.IR intro (2))
+inherits each of these processes as well.
+Any stopped children are restarted with a hangup signal (SIGHUP).
+.in -5n
+.PP
+Most C programs call the library routine
+.IR exit (3),
+which performs cleanup actions in the standard I/O library before
+calling \fI_exit\fP\|.
+.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+This call never returns.