MirOS Manual: raise(3)

RAISE(3)                   BSD Programmer's Manual                    RAISE(3)

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 speci-
     fied for the library functions getpid(2) and kill(2).

SEE ALSO

     getpid(2), kill(2)

STANDARDS

     The raise() function conforms to ANSI X3.159-1989 ("ANSI C").

MirOS BSD #10-current            June 4, 1993                                1

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