TIMER_DELETE(2)                                     Linux Programmer's Manual                                    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_settime(2), timer_getoverrun(2), time(7)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2009-02-20                                            TIMER_DELETE(2)