NAME

raise — send a signal to the current thread

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 thread.

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 specified 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”).