Manual Pages  — RAISE

raise – send a signal to the current thread

LIBRARY SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION RETURN VALUES ERRORS SEE ALSO STANDARDS

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

#include <signal.h>

int
raise(int sig);

The raise() function sends the signal sig to the current thread.

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.

The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 ("ISO C90").