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rmtimer

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NAME

rmtimer - Frees a per-process timer  

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc.a)  

SYNOPSIS

#include <sys/timers.h>

int rmtimer(       timer_t timer_id );
 

PARAMETERS

Specifies the per-process timer to deallocate.  

DESCRIPTION

The rmtimer() function is used to free a previously allocated per-process timer (previously returned by the mktimer() function). Any pending per-process timer event generated by the timer specified by the timer_id parameter is canceled when this function successfully executes.  

NOTES

Trial use  

RETURN VALUES

Upon successful completion, the value 0 (zero) is returned. Otherwise, the value -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.  

ERRORS

If the rmtimer() function fails, errno may be set to the following value: The timerid parameter does not specify an allocated per-process timer.  

RELATED INFORMATION

Functions: gettimer(3), mktimer(3), reltimer(3) delim off


 

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