RAISE(3) BSD Programmer's Manual RAISE(3)NAMEraise - 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 ALSOkill(2)STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to ANSI C X3.159-1989 (``ANSI C '').
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