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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 >= 199309

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)

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