NAME
timer_delete – delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)
LIBRARY
library “librt”
SYNOPSIS
#include <time.h>
int
timer_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
The timer_delete() 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 timer_delete() system call will fail if:
- [EINVAL]
-
The timer ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer ID.
SEE ALSO
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.