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
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timer_delete(3C) Standard C Library Functions timer_delete(3C)NAME
timer_delete - delete a timer
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
int timer_delete(timer_t timerid);
DESCRIPTION
The timer_delete() function deletes the specified timer, timerid, previously created by the timer_create(3C) function. If the timer is
armed when timer_delete() is called, the behavior will be as if the timer is automatically disarmed before removal. The disposition of
pending signals for the deleted timer is unspecified.
RETURN VALUES
If successful, the function returns 0. Otherwise, the function returns -1 and sets errno to indicate the error.
ERRORS
The timer_delete() function will fail if:
EINVAL The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer ID.
ENOSYS The timer_delete() function is not supported by the system.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE |ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Interface Stability |Committed |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|MT-Level |MT-Safe with exceptions |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Standard |See standards(5). |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO timer_create(3C), attributes(5), standards(5)SunOS 5.11 5 Feb 2008 timer_delete(3C)
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