NAME

timer_delete — delete a per-process timer

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <time.h>

int
timer_delete(timer_t timerid);

DESCRIPTION

The timer_delete() functions deletes the timer specified in the timerid argument. The timerid argument must point to valid timer id, created by timer_create(2). If the deletion is successful, the timer is disarmed and deleted. Pending notification events (signals) may or may not be delivered.

RETURN VALUES

If successful, the timer_delete() functions returns 0. Otherwise, it returns -1, and sets errno to indicate error.

ERRORS

The timer_delete() function will fail if:

[EINVAL]

The argument timerid is not a valid timer id.

SEE ALSO

timer_create(2), timer_getoverrun(2), timer_gettime(2), timer_settime(2)

STANDARDS

IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (“POSIX.1b”), IEEE Std 1003.1i-1995 (“POSIX.1i”)