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RAISE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual RAISE(3) NAME raise -- send a signal to the current process LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <signal.h> int raise(int sig); DESCRIPTION The raise() function sends the signal sig to the current process. 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 speci-fied specified fied for the library functions getpid(2) and kill(2). SEE ALSO kill(2) STANDARDS The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90''). BSD June 4, 1993 BSD |