1.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1991, 1993 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 6.\" Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" @(#)raise.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93 33.\" $FreeBSD: src/lib/libc/gen/raise.3,v 1.3.2.4 2001/12/14 18:33:51 ru Exp $ 34.\" $DragonFly: src/lib/libc/gen/raise.3,v 1.2 2003/06/17 04:26:42 dillon Exp $ 35.\" 36.Dd June 4, 1993 37.Dt RAISE 3 38.Os 39.Sh NAME 40.Nm raise 41.Nd send a signal to the current process 42.Sh LIBRARY 43.Lb libc 44.Sh SYNOPSIS 45.In signal.h 46.Ft int 47.Fn raise "int sig" 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49The 50.Fn raise 51function sends the signal 52.Fa sig 53to the current process. 54.Sh RETURN VALUES 55.Rv -std raise 56.Sh ERRORS 57The 58.Fn raise 59function 60may fail and set 61.Va errno 62for any of the errors specified for the 63library functions 64.Xr getpid 2 65and 66.Xr kill 2 . 67.Sh SEE ALSO 68.Xr kill 2 69.Sh STANDARDS 70The 71.Fn raise 72function 73conforms to 74.St -isoC . 75