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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