RAISE(3) BSD Library Functions Manual RAISE(3)NAMEraise — 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 for the library functions getpid(2) and kill(2).
SEE ALSOkill(2)STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (“ISO C90”).
BSD June 4, 1993 BSD