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 >= 199309

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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