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.

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

COLOPHON
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