1SIGSUSPEND(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual SIGSUSPEND(3P)
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13 sigsuspend — wait for a signal
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16 #include <signal.h>
17 int sigsuspend(const sigset_t *sigmask);
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21 The sigsuspend() function shall replace the current signal mask of the
22 calling thread with the set of signals pointed to by sigmask and then
23 suspend the thread until delivery of a signal whose action is either to
24 execute a signal-catching function or to terminate the process. This
25 shall not cause any other signals that may have been pending on the
26 process to become pending on the thread.
27 If the action is to terminate the process then sigsuspend() shall never
29 return. If the action is to execute a signal-catching function, then
30 sigsuspend() shall return after the signal-catching function returns,
31 with the signal mask restored to the set that existed prior to the sig‐
32 suspend() call.
33 It is not possible to block signals that cannot be ignored. This is
35 enforced by the system without causing an error to be indicated.
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38 Since sigsuspend() suspends thread execution indefinitely, there is no
39 successful completion return value. If a return occurs, −1 shall be
40 returned and errno set to indicate the error.
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43 The sigsuspend() function shall fail if:
44 EINTR A signal is caught by the calling process and control is
46 returned from the signal-catching function.
47 The following sections are informative.
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51 None.
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54 Normally, at the beginning of a critical code section, a specified set
55 of signals is blocked using the sigprocmask() function. When the thread
56 has completed the critical section and needs to wait for the previously
57 blocked signal(s), it pauses by calling sigsuspend() with the mask that
58 was returned by the sigprocmask() call.
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61 Code which wants to avoid the ambiguity of the signal mask for thread
62 cancellation handlers can install an additional cancellation handler
63 which resets the signal mask to the expected value.
64 void cleanup(void *arg)
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67 sigset_t *ss = (sigset_t *) arg;
68 pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, ss, NULL);
69 }
70 int call_sigsuspend(const sigset_t *mask)
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73 sigset_t oldmask;
74 int result;
75 pthread_sigmask(SIG_SETMASK, NULL, &oldmask);
76 pthread_cleanup_push(cleanup, &oldmask);
77 result = sigsuspend(sigmask);
78 pthread_cleanup_pop(0);
79 return result;
80 }
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83 None.
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86 Section 2.4, Signal Concepts, pause(), sigaction(), sigaddset(),
87 sigdelset(), sigemptyset(), sigfillset()
88 The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <signal.h>
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93 from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information Technology
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