NAME
timer_delete —
delete a per-process timer
(REALTIME)
LIBRARY
library “librt”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<time.h>
int
timer_delete(timer_t
timerid);
DESCRIPTION
Thetimer_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
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.