As discussed here https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/88300#issuecomment-936085371 exit is (conventionally) a library function, with _exit being the actual system call. I have checked the other references and they say "if the process terminated by calling `exti`". I think despite the slight imprecision (strictly, it should read iff ... `_exit`), this is clearer. Anyone who knows about the distinction between `exit` and `_exit` will not be confused. `_exit` is the correct traditional name for the system call, despite Linux calling it `exit_group` or `exit`: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=_exit&sektion=2&n=1 Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>