int exit(int status) - terminates the process which calls this function and returns the exit status value. Both UNIX and C (forked) programs can read the status value.
By convention, a status of 0 means normal termination any other value indicates an error or unusual occurrence. Many standard library calls have errors defined in the sys/stat.h header file. We can easily derive our own conventions.
A complete example of forking program is in Appendix 
and is
originally titled fork.c