timer_delete(2) [netbsd man page]

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

NAME

     timer_delete -- delete a per-process timer

LIBRARY

     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

     #include <time.h>

     int
     timer_delete(timer_t timerid);

DESCRIPTION

     The timer_delete() functions deletes the timer specified in the timerid argument.	The timerid argument must point to valid timer id, created
     by timer_create(2).  If the deletion is successful, the timer is disarmed and deleted.  Pending notification events (signals) may or may not
     be delivered.

RETURN VALUES

     If successful, the timer_delete() functions returns 0.  Otherwise, it returns -1, and sets errno to indicate error.

ERRORS

     The timer_delete() function will fail if:

     [EINVAL]		The argument timerid is not a valid timer id.

SEE ALSO

     timer_create(2), timer_getoverrun(2), timer_gettime(2), timer_settime(2)

STANDARDS

     IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (``POSIX.1''), IEEE Std 1003.1i-1995 (``POSIX.1'')

BSD
								September 13, 2003							       BSD

TIMER_DELETE(2) 					     Linux Programmer's Manual						   TIMER_DELETE(2)

NAME

       timer_delete - delete a POSIX per-process timer

SYNOPSIS

       #include <time.h>

       int timer_delete(timer_t timerid);

       Link with -lrt.

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       timer_delete(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 199309L

DESCRIPTION

       timer_delete()  deletes	the  timer  whose  ID is given in timerid.  If the timer was armed at the time of this call, it is disarmed before
       being deleted.  The treatment of any pending signal generated by the deleted timer is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE

       On success, timer_delete() returns 0.  On failure, -1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       EINVAL timerid is not a valid timer ID.

VERSIONS

       This system call is available since Linux 2.6.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO

       clock_gettime(2), timer_create(2), timer_getoverrun(2), timer_settime(2), time(7)

COLOPHON

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       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.

Linux								    2009-02-20							   TIMER_DELETE(2)