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RAISE(3) FreeBSD 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
specified 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").
FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11 May 7, 2010 FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE-p11