RAISE(3) Library Functions Manual RAISE(3)

raisesend a signal to the current thread

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <signal.h>

int
raise(int sig);

The () function sends the signal sig to the current thread.

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.

The raise() function may fail and set errno for any of the errors specified for the library functions getpid(2) and pthread_kill(2).

kill(2), pthread_kill(2)

The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (“ISO C90”).

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