NAME
sigprocmask, rt_sigprocmask - examine and change blocked signals
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h> /* Prototype for the glibc wrapper function */ int sigprocmask(int how, const sigset_t *set, sigset_t *oldset); /* Prototype for the underlying system call */ int rt_sigprocmask(int how, const kernel_sigset_t *set, kernel_sigset_t *oldset, size_t sigsetsize); /* Prototype for the legacy system call (deprecated) */ int sigprocmask(int how, const old_kernel_sigset_t *set, old_kernel_sigset_t *oldset); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): sigprocmask(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
sigprocmask() is used to fetch and/or change the signal mask of the calling thread. The signal mask is the set of signals whose delivery is currently blocked for the caller (see also signal(7) for more details). The behavior of the call is dependent on the value of how, as follows. SIG_BLOCK The set of blocked signals is the union of the current set and the set argument. SIG_UNBLOCK The signals in set are removed from the current set of blocked signals. It is permissible to attempt to unblock a signal which is not blocked. SIG_SETMASK The set of blocked signals is set to the argument set. If oldset is non-NULL, the previous value of the signal mask is stored in oldset. If set is NULL, then the signal mask is unchanged (i.e., how is ignored), but the current value of the signal mask is nevertheless returned in oldset (if it is not NULL). A set of functions for modifying and inspecting variables of type sigset_t ("signal sets") is described in sigsetops(3). The use of sigprocmask() is unspecified in a multithreaded process; see pthread_sigmask(3).
RETURN VALUE
sigprocmask() returns 0 on success and -1 on error. In the event of an error, errno is set to indicate the cause.
ERRORS
EFAULT The set or oldset argument points outside the process's allocated address space. EINVAL Either the value specified in how was invalid or the kernel does not support the size passed in sigsetsize.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001, POSIX.1-2008.
NOTES
It is not possible to block SIGKILL or SIGSTOP. Attempts to do so are silently ignored. Each of the threads in a process has its own signal mask. A child created via fork(2) inherits a copy of its parent's signal mask; the signal mask is preserved across execve(2). If SIGBUS, SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV are generated while they are blocked, the result is undefined, unless the signal was generated by kill(2), sigqueue(3), or raise(3). See sigsetops(3) for details on manipulating signal sets. C library/kernel differences The kernel's definition of sigset_t differs in size from that used by the C library. In this manual page, the former is referred to as kernel_sigset_t (it is nevertheless named sigset_t in the kernel sources). The glibc wrapper function for sigprocmask() silently ignores attempts to block the two real-time signals that are used internally by the NPTL threading implementation. See nptl(7) for details. The original Linux system call was named sigprocmask(). However, with the addition of real-time signals in Linux 2.2, the fixed-size, 32-bit sigset_t (referred to as old_kernel_sigset_t in this manual page) type supported by that system call was no longer fit for purpose. Consequently, a new system call, rt_sigprocmask(), was added to support an enlarged sigset_t type (referred to as kernel_sigset_t in this manual page). The new system call takes a fourth argument, size_t sigsetsize, which specifies the size in bytes of the signal sets in set and oldset. This argument is currently required to have the value 8 ( sizeof(kernel_sigset_t) ). The glibc sigprocmask() wrapper function hides these details from us, transparently calling rt_sigprocmask() when the kernel provides it.
SEE ALSO
kill(2), pause(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), sigpending(2), sigsuspend(2), pthread_sigmask(3), sigqueue(3), sigsetops(3), signal(7)
COLOPHON
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