NAME

raise — send a signal to the executing process

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

int raise(int sig);

DESCRIPTION

The raise() function sends the signal sig to the executing thread.

The effect of the raise() function is equivalent to calling: pthread_kill(pthread_self(), sig);

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, a non-zero value is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The raise() function will fail if:

[EINVAL]

The value of the sig argument is an invalid signal number.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

kill(3) , sigaction(3) , <signal.h> , <sys/types.h> .

DERIVATION

Derived from the ANSI C standard.