RAISE(3)               FreeBSD Library Functions Manual               RAISE(3)

NAME

     raise - send a signal to the current thread

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 thread.

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
     specified for the library functions getpid(2) and kill(2).

SEE ALSO

     kill(2)

STANDARDS

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

FreeBSD 15.1-STABLE-HBSD          May 7, 2010                         RAISE(3)