RAISE
RAISE
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NAME
raise - send a signal to the caller
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h >
int raise(int sig );
DESCRIPTION
The
raise ()
function sends a signal to the calling process or thread.
In a single-threaded program it is equivalent to
kill(getpid(), sig);
In a multithreaded program it is equivalent to
pthread_kill(pthread_self(), sig);
If the signal causes a handler to be called,
raise ()
will only return after the signal handler has returned.
RETURN VALUE
raise ()
returns 0 on success, and nonzero for failure.
CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
SEE ALSO
getpid kill sigaction signal pthread_kill signal
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