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RAISE(3)	       FreeBSD Library Functions Manual 	      RAISE(3)

NAME
     raise -- send a signal to the current process

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 process.

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 speci-
     fied for the library functions getpid(2) and kill(2).

SEE ALSO
     kill(2)

STANDARDS
     The raise() function conforms to ISO/IEC 9899:1990 (``ISO C89'').

FreeBSD 4.9			 June 4, 1993			   FreeBSD 4.9

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