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

timer_idSpecifies 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

AES Support Level:
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:

[EINVAL]The timerid parameter does not specify an allocated per-process timer. 

RELATED INFORMATION

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