NAME
raise
- send a signal to the current thread
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
int
raise(int sig)
DESCRIPTION
The
raise()
function sends the signal
sig
to the current thread.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned.
Otherwise, a value of -1 is returned and the global variable
errno
is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The
raise()
function
may fail and set
errno
for any of the errors specified for the
library functions
_lwp_self(2)
and
_lwp_kill(2).
SEE ALSO
kill(2)
STANDARDS
The
raise()
function
conforms to
ANSI X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C89'')
and
Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification (``SUSv2'') .