NAME
raise —
send a signal to the current
process
SYNOPSIS
#include
<signal.h>
int
raise(int
sig);
DESCRIPTION
The
raise()
function sends the signal sig to the current
process.
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 getpid(2) and
kill(2).
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to
ANSI X3.159-1989
(“ANSI C89”).