raise3
Send a signal to the current thread
Usage
#include <signal.h>
int
raise(int sig);
Library
Standard C Library (libc, -lc)
Overview
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).
Releases
87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 40 times.