| RAISE(3) |
FreeBSD 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).
STANDARDS
The
raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (“ISO C90”).