NAME
raise —
send a signal to the current
thread
LIBRARY
library “libc”
SYNOPSIS
#include
<signal.h>
int
raise(int
sig);
DESCRIPTION
Theraise()
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
STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to
ISO/IEC 9899:1990
(“ISO C90”).