RAISE

Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: August 31, 1995
 

NAME

raise - send a signal to the current process  

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

int raise (int sig);
 

DESCRIPTION

The raise function sends a signal to the current process. It is equivalent to

kill(getpid(),sig)
 

RETURN VALUE

0 on success, nonzero for failure.  

CONFORMING TO

ANSI-C  

SEE ALSO

kill(2), signal(2), getpid(2)