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
Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. Otherwise, a value of -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
_lwp_self(2) and
_lwp_kill(2).
SEE ALSO
kill(2),
raise_default_signal(3)
STANDARDS
The
raise() function conforms to
ANSI
X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”) and
Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification
(“SUSv2”).