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It was thus said that the Great Phil Leblanc once stated:
> On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 5:51 PM Lorenzo Donati
> <lorenzodonatibz@tiscali.it> wrote:
> >
> > Funnily enough, os.exit, by default, does less than what C exit function
> > guarantees, i.e. equivalent to returning from main (C has much uglier
> > looking alternatives for emergency exit).
> 
> This summarizes nicely my original point! :-)  The (not so uglier)
> emergency exit in C would be _exit().

  The uglier one is abort().

  -spc