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NAME¶
timer_delete
—
delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)
LIBRARY¶
POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)SYNOPSIS¶
#include
<time.h>
int
timer_delete
(timer_t
timerid);
DESCRIPTION¶
Thetimer_delete
() system call deletes the
specified timer, timerid, previously created
by the timer_create(2) system call. If the timer
is armed when timer_delete
() is called, the
behavior is as if the timer is automatically disarmed before removal. Pending
signals for the deleted timer are cleared.
RETURN VALUES¶
Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.ERRORS¶
Thetimer_delete
() system call will fail if:
- [
EINVAL
] - The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer ID.
SEE ALSO¶
timer_create(2)STANDARDS¶
Thetimer_delete
() system call conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2004
(“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY¶
Support for POSIX per-process timer first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.September 11, 2000 | Debian |