(split) LDP: Update original to LDP v3.40.

[linuxjm/LDP_man-pages.git] / original / man3 / raise.3

diff --git a/original/man3/raise.3 b/original/man3/raise.3
index 6fcd41b..4ea4068 100644 (file)
--- a/original/man3/raise.3
+++ b/original/man3/raise.3
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 .\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:40:56 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified 1995 by Mike Battersby (mib@deakin.edu.au)
 .\"
-.TH RAISE 3  2008-10-17 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH RAISE 3  2012-04-20 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 raise \- send a signal to the caller
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -61,6 +61,17 @@ will only return after the signal handler has returned.
 returns 0 on success, and nonzero for failure.
 .SH "CONFORMING TO"
 C89, C99, POSIX.1-2001.
+.SH NOTES
+Since version 2.3.3, glibc implements
+.BR raise ()
+by calling
+.BR tgkill (2),
+.\" 2.3.2 used the obsolete tkill(), if available.
+if the kernel supports that system call.
+Older glibc versions implemented
+.BR raise ()
+using
+.BR kill (2).
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
 .BR getpid (2),
 .BR kill (2),