diff --git a/src/core/capi.c b/src/core/capi.c
index 7981a6eb..3e397721 100644
--- a/src/core/capi.c
+++ b/src/core/capi.c
@@ -50,11 +50,18 @@ JANET_NO_RETURN static void janet_top_level_signal(const char *msg) {
     JANET_TOP_LEVEL_SIGNAL(msg);
 #else
     fputs(msg, stdout);
+    if (!(janet_vm.sandbox_flags & JANET_SANDBOX_EXIT)) {
+        /* Exit is not forbidden */
+        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+    }
+    /* If not able to signal, then select good default behavior - for single threaded programs, we have no
+     * choice but to exit. */
 # ifdef JANET_SINGLE_THREADED
-    exit(-1);
+    exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
 # elif defined(JANET_WINDOWS)
     ExitThread(-1);
 # else
+    /* Other threads will continue as usual */
     pthread_exit(NULL);
 # endif
 #endif
diff --git a/src/core/corelib.c b/src/core/corelib.c
index 8c39268a..93857b74 100644
--- a/src/core/corelib.c
+++ b/src/core/corelib.c
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ static const SandboxOption sandbox_options[] = {
     {"chroot", JANET_SANDBOX_CHROOT},
     {"compile", JANET_SANDBOX_COMPILE},
     {"env", JANET_SANDBOX_ENV},
+    {"exit", JANET_SANDBOX_EXIT},
     {"ffi", JANET_SANDBOX_FFI},
     {"ffi-define", JANET_SANDBOX_FFI_DEFINE},
     {"ffi-jit", JANET_SANDBOX_FFI_JIT},
@@ -784,6 +785,7 @@ JANET_CORE_FN(janet_core_sandbox,
               "* :chroot - disallow calling `os/posix-chroot`\n"
               "* :compile - disallow calling `compile`. This will disable a lot of functionality, such as `eval`.\n"
               "* :env - disallow reading and write env variables\n"
+              "* :exit - disallow calling `os/exit` or otherwise early exiting the process in trivial ways.\n"
               "* :ffi - disallow FFI (recommended if disabling anything else)\n"
               "* :ffi-define - disallow loading new FFI modules and binding new functions\n"
               "* :ffi-jit - disallow calling `ffi/jitfn`\n"
@@ -801,7 +803,7 @@ JANET_CORE_FN(janet_core_sandbox,
               "* :signal - disallow adding or removing signal handlers\n"
               "* :subprocess - disallow running subprocesses\n"
               "* :threads - disallow spawning threads with `ev/thread`. Certain helper threads may still be spawned.\n"
-              "* :unmarshal - disallow calling the unmarshal function.\n") {
+              "* :unmarshal - disallow calling the `unmarshal` function.\n") {
     uint32_t flags = 0;
     for (int32_t i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
         JanetKeyword kw = janet_getkeyword(argv, i);
diff --git a/src/core/ev.c b/src/core/ev.c
index 5731bdd3..80bf486b 100644
--- a/src/core/ev.c
+++ b/src/core/ev.c
@@ -613,7 +613,7 @@ void janet_ev_init_common(void) {
 #if JANET_ANDROID
 static void janet_timeout_stop(int sig_num) {
     if (sig_num == SIGUSR1) {
-        pthread_exit(0);
+        pthread_exit(NULL);
     }
 }
 #endif
diff --git a/src/core/os.c b/src/core/os.c
index bc7b7bd6..c0ab59a4 100644
--- a/src/core/os.c
+++ b/src/core/os.c
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ JANET_CORE_FN(os_exit,
               "the exit with status equal the hash of x. If `force` is truthy will exit immediately and "
               "skip cleanup code.") {
     janet_arity(argc, 0, 2);
+    janet_sandbox_assert(JANET_SANDBOX_EXIT);
     int status;
     if (argc == 0) {
         status = EXIT_SUCCESS;
diff --git a/src/include/janet.h b/src/include/janet.h
index 3f2ace5f..56e8af8c 100644
--- a/src/include/janet.h
+++ b/src/include/janet.h
@@ -2024,6 +2024,7 @@ JANET_API void janet_stacktrace_ext(JanetFiber *fiber, Janet err, const char *pr
 #define JANET_SANDBOX_ASM 65536
 #define JANET_SANDBOX_THREADS 131072
 #define JANET_SANDBOX_UNMARSHAL 262144
+#define JANET_SANDBOX_EXIT 524288
 #define JANET_SANDBOX_ALL (UINT32_MAX)
 JANET_API void janet_sandbox(uint32_t flags);
 JANET_API void janet_sandbox_assert(uint32_t forbidden_flags);