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Manual Reference Pages  - RAISE (3)

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raise - send a signal to the current process

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#include <signal.h> 



int raise(int sig); 

The raise() function sends a signal to the current process. It is equivalent to

kill(getpid(), sig);

0 on success, nonzero for failure.

ANSI-C

kill(2), signal(2), getpid(2)

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