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RAISE(3) Linux Programmer's Manual RAISE(3)

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)
August 31, 1995 GNU