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TIMER_DELETE(2)               System Calls Manual              TIMER_DELETE(2)

NAME
     timer_delete - delete 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
     timer_create(2), timer_getoverrun(2), timer_gettime(2), timer_settime(2)

STANDARDS
     IEEE Std 1003.1b-1993 ("POSIX.1b"), IEEE Std 1003.1i-1995 ("POSIX.1i")

NetBSD 10.99                  September 13, 2003                  NetBSD 10.99