RAISE(3)                       Library Routines                       RAISE(3)

NAME

       raise - 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  indi‐
       cate 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 ALSO

       kill(2)

STANDARDS

       The raise function conforms to ANSI/C.



GNO                             22 January 1997                       RAISE(3)