TIMER_DELETE(2) System Calls Manual TIMER_DELETE(2)
NAME
timer_deletedelete 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
STANDARDS
IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 (“POSIX.1”), IEEE Std 1003.1i-1995 (“POSIX.1”)