RAISE(3)                 BSD 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 speci-
     fied for the library functions getpid(2) and pthread_kill(2).

SEE ALSO
     kill(2), pthread_kill(2)

STANDARDS
     The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C90'').

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