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.\" %sccs.include.redist.man% 9.\" 10.\" @(#)raise.3 8.1 (Berkeley) 06/04/93 11.\" 12.Dd 13.Dt RAISE 3 14.Os 15.Sh NAME 16.Nm raise 17.Nd send a signal to the current process 18.Sh SYNOPSIS 19.Fd #include <signal.h> 20.Ft int 21.Fn raise "int sig" 22.Sh DESCRIPTION 23The 24.Fn raise 25function sends the signal 26.Fa sig 27to the current process. 28.Sh RETURN VALUES 29Upon successful completion, a value of 0 is returned. 30Otherwise, a value of \-1 is returned and the global variable 31.Va errno 32is set to indicate the error. 33.Sh ERRORS 34The 35.Fn raise 36function 37may fail and set 38.Va errno 39for any of the errors specified for the 40library functions 41.Xr getpid 2 42and 43.Xr kill 2 . 44.Sh SEE ALSO 45.Xr kill 2 46.Sh STANDARDS 47The 48.Fn raise 49function 50conforms to 51.St -ansiC . 52