RAISE(3)

NAME

     raise -- send a signal to the current process

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 process.

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 kill(2).

SEE ALSO

     kill(2)

STANDARDS

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