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TIMER_DELETE(2) 	       System Calls Manual		 TIMER_DELETE(2)

NAME
     timer_delete -- delete a per-process timer (REALTIME)

LIBRARY
     POSIX Real-time Library (librt, -lrt)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <time.h>

     int
     timer_delete(timer_t timerid);

DESCRIPTION
     The timer_delete() system call deletes the specified timer, timerid, previ-
     ously  created  by  the timer_create(2) system call.  If the timer is armed
     when timer_delete() is called, the behavior is as if the timer is automati-
     cally disarmed before removal.  Pending signals for the deleted  timer  are
     cleared.

RETURN VALUES
     Upon successful completion, the value 0 is returned; otherwise the value -1
     is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
     The timer_delete() system call will fail if:

     [EINVAL]		The  timer  ID specified by timerid is not a valid timer
			ID.

SEE ALSO
     timer_create(2)

STANDARDS
     The  timer_delete()  system  call	conforms   to	IEEE   Std   1003.1-2004
     ("POSIX.1").

HISTORY
     Support for POSIX per-process timer first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0.

FreeBSD 15.1		       September 11, 2000		 TIMER_DELETE(2)

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