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NAME¶
timer_delete — delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)LIBRARY¶
POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)SYNOPSIS¶
#include <time.h> inttimer_delete(timer_t timerid);
DESCRIPTION¶
The timer_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¶
The timer_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¶
The timer_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 |