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TIMER_DELETE(2) Linux Programmer's Manual TIMER_DELETE(2)

NAME

     timer_delete - delete a POSIX per-process timer

SYNOPSIS

     #include <time.h>

     int timer_delete(timer_t timerid);

     Link with -lrt.

 Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

     timer_delete(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 199309L

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, POSIX.1-2008.

SEE ALSO

     clock_gettime(2),   timer_create(2),   timer_getoverrun(2),  timer_set-
     time(2), time(7)

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Linux 2015-08-08 TIMER_DELETE(2)