1SIGRETURN(2) Linux Programmer's Manual SIGRETURN(2)
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6 sigreturn - return from signal handler and cleanup stack frame
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9 int sigreturn(unsigned long __unused);
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12 When the Linux kernel creates the stack frame for a signal handler, a
13 call to sigreturn() is inserted into the stack frame so that upon
14 return from the signal handler, sigreturn() will be called.
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16 This sigreturn() call undoes everything that was done—changing the
17 process's signal mask, switching stacks (see sigaltstack(2))—in order
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24 sigreturn() never returns.
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31 sigreturn() is specific to Linux and should not be used in programs
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35 The sigreturn() call is used by the kernel to implement signal han‐
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40 kill(2), restart_syscall(2), sigaltstack(2), signal(2), signal(7)
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43 This page is part of release 3.53 of the Linux man-pages project. A
44 description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can
45 be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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