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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, POSIX.1-2008.

SEE ALSO
       clock_gettime(2),   timer_create(2),   timer_getoverrun(2),  timer_set-
       time(2), time(7)

COLOPHON
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Linux				  2015-08-08		       TIMER_DELETE(2)