RAISE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual RAISE(3)
NAME
raise -- send a signal to the current thread
LIBRARY
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
int
raise(int sig);
DESCRIPTION
The raise() function sends the signal sig to the current thread.
RETURN VALUES
The raise() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -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 getpid(2) and kill(2).
SEE ALSO
kill(2)
STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').
BSD
May 7, 2010 BSD
