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author | David Leonard <d@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-08-27 09:01:31 +0000 |
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committer | David Leonard <d@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1998-08-27 09:01:31 +0000 |
commit | bedf96e763621a9b6fb71822bd95c454b95d9486 (patch) | |
tree | 22181d26ad362f92835d7d276b5a84d2eb9b042e /lib/libc_r/man/sigwait.3 | |
parent | 9f6a9b5b5b545cec5bad0c172212ede2256d4285 (diff) |
experimental threaded libc - kernel only
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diff --git a/lib/libc_r/man/sigwait.3 b/lib/libc_r/man/sigwait.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..159ea408120 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libc_r/man/sigwait.3 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ +.\" $OpenBSD: sigwait.3,v 1.1 1998/08/27 09:00:48 d Exp $ +.Dd August 20, 1998 +.Os Ox +.Dt SIGWAIT 3 +.Sh NAME +.Nm sigwait +.Nd synchonously accept a signal +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Fd #include <signal.h> +.Ft int +.Fn sigwait "sont sigset_t *set" "int *sig" +.Sh DESCRIPTION +The +.Fn sigwait +function selects a pending signal from +.Fa set , +atomically clears it from the system's set of pending signals, and returns +that signal number in the location referenced by +.Fa sig . +If prior to the call to +.Fn sigwait +there are multiple pending instances of a single signal number, +it is undefined whether upon successful return there are any remaining pending signals for that signal number. +If no signal in +.Fa set +is pending at the time of the call, +the thread shall be suspended until one or more becomes pending. +The signals defined by +.Fa set +should have been blocked at the time of the call to +.Fn sigwait ; +otherwise the behaviour is undefined. +The effect of +.Fn sigwait +on the signal actions for the signals in +.Fa set +is unspecified. +.Pp +If more than one thread is using +.Fn sigwait +to wait for the same signal, +no more than one of these threads shall return from +.Fn sigwait +with the signal number. +Which thread returns from +.Fn sigwait +if more than a single thread is waiting is unspecified. +.Sh RETURN VALUES +Upon successful completion, +.Fn sigwait +stores the signal number of the recived signal at the location referenced by +.Fa sig +and returns zero. +.Sh ERRORS +On error, +.Fn Sigwait +returns one of these error values: +.Bl -tag -width Er +.It Bq Er EINVAL +The +.Fa set +argument contains an invalid or unsupported signal number +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr pause +.Xr sigaction +.Xr sigpending +.Xr sigsuspend +.Xr pthreads +.Xr pthread_sigmask +.Sh STANDARDS +.Fn sigwait +conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1 ANSI/IEEE +.Pq Dq Tn POSIX +Std 1003.1c/D10. +.\" Std 1003.1 Second Edition 1996-07-12. |