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SIGSUSPEND(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SIGSUSPEND(2)
sigsuspend - wait for a signal
#include <signal.h>
int sigsuspend(const sigset_t *mask);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
sigsuspend(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 1 || _XOPEN_SOURCE || _POSIX_SOURCE
sigsuspend() temporarily replaces the signal mask of the calling process with
the mask given by mask and then suspends the process until delivery of a
signal whose action is to invoke a signal handler or to terminate a process.
If the signal terminates the process, then sigsuspend() does not return. If
the signal is caught, then sigsuspend() returns after the signal handler
returns, and the signal mask is restored to the state before the call to
sigsuspend().
It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP; specifying these signals in
mask, has no effect on the process's signal mask.
sigsuspend() always returns -1, normally with the error EINTR.
EFAULT mask points to memory which is not a valid part of the process address
space.
EINTR The call was interrupted by a signal.
POSIX.1-2001.
Normally, sigsuspend() is used in conjunction with sigprocmask(2) in order to
prevent delivery of a signal during the execution of a critical code section.
The caller first blocks the signals with sigprocmask(2). When the critical
code has completed, the caller then waits for the signals by calling
sigsuspend() with the signal mask that was returned by sigprocmask(2) (in the
oldset argument).
See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets.
kill(2), pause(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigprocmask(2), sigwaitinfo(2),
sigsetops(3), sigwait(3), signal(7)
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Linux 2008-08-29 SIGSUSPEND(2)