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
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
STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to
ANSI X3.159-1989 (“ANSI C89”)
and Version 2 of the Single UNIX Specification
(“SUSv2”).