Name

timer_delete — delete a POSIX per-process timer

Synopsis

#include <time.h>
int timer_delete( timer_t timerid);
 
[Note] Note
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
timer_delete():
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 199309L
[Note] Note

Link with −lrt.

DESCRIPTION

timer_delete() deletes the timer whose ID is given in timerid. If the timer was armed at the time of this call, it is disarmed before being deleted. The treatment of any pending signal generated by the deleted timer is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE

On success, timer_delete() returns 0. On failure, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

EINVAL

timerid is not a valid timer ID.

VERSIONS

This system call is available since Linux 2.6.

CONFORMING TO

POSIX.1-2001

SEE ALSO

clock_gettime(2), timer_create(2), timer_settime(2), timer_getoverrun(2), time(7)

COLOPHON

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