RAISE(3) MachTen Programmer’s Manual 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 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 ALSO
kill(2)

STANDARDS
The raise() function conforms to ANSI C3.159-1989 (‘‘ANSI C’’).

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