RAISE
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (3)
Updated: 2014-03-10
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NAME
raise - send a signal to the caller
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
int raise(int sig);
DESCRIPTION
The
raise()
function sends a signal to the calling process or thread.
In a single-threaded program it is equivalent to
kill(getpid(), sig);
In a multithreaded program it is equivalent to
pthread_kill(pthread_self(), sig);
If the signal causes a handler to be called,
raise()
will return only after the signal handler has returned.
RETURN VALUE
raise()
returns 0 on success, and nonzero for failure.
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
The
raise()
function is thread-safe.
CONFORMING TO
C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
Since version 2.3.3, glibc implements
raise()
by calling
tgkill(2),
if the kernel supports that system call.
Older glibc versions implemented
raise()
using
kill(2).
SEE ALSO
getpid(2),
kill(2),
sigaction(2),
signal(2),
pthread_kill(3),
signal(7)
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- RETURN VALUE
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- ATTRIBUTES
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- Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
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- CONFORMING TO
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- NOTES
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- SEE ALSO
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