freebsd man page for timer_delete

Query: timer_delete

OS: freebsd

Section: 2

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TIMER_DELETE(2) 					      BSD System Calls Manual						   TIMER_DELETE(2)

NAME
timer_delete -- delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)
LIBRARY
POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h> int timer_delete(timer_t timerid);
DESCRIPTION
The timer_delete() system call deletes the specified timer, timerid, previously created by the timer_create(2) system call. If the timer is armed when timer_delete() is called, the behavior is as if the timer is automatically disarmed before removal. Pending signals for the deleted timer are cleared.
RETURN VALUES
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The timer_delete() system call will fail if: [EINVAL] The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer ID.
SEE ALSO
timer_create(2)
STANDARDS
The timer_delete() system call conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 (``POSIX.1'').
HISTORY
Support for POSIX per-process timer first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.
BSD
September 11, 2000 BSD
Related Man Pages
timer_delete(3p) - centos
timer_delete(3) - linux
timer_delete(2) - netbsd
timer_delete(3rt) - sunos
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