NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | RETURN VALUE | ERRORS | VERSIONS | CONFORMING TO | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

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

NAME         top

       timer_delete - delete a POSIX per-process timer

SYNOPSIS         top

       #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         top

       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         top

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

ERRORS         top

       EINVAL timerid is not a valid timer ID.

VERSIONS         top

       This system call is available since Linux 2.6.

CONFORMING TO         top

       POSIX.1-2001.

SEE ALSO         top

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

COLOPHON         top

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Linux                                 2009-02-20                      TIMER_DELETE(2)

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