SIGPAUSE(3) Linux Programmers Manual SIGPAUSE(3)
NAME
sigpause - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
SYNOPSIS
#include
int sigpause(int sigmask); /* BSD */
int sigpause(int sig); /* System V / Unix95 */
DESCRIPTION
Dont use this function. Use sigsuspend(2) instead.
The function sigpause() is designed to wait for some signal. It
changes the processs signal mask (set of blocked signals), and then
waits for a signal to arrive. Upon arrival of a signal, the original
signal mask is restored.
RETURN VALUE
If sigpause() returns, it was interrupted by a signal and the return
value is -1 with errno set to EINTR.
CONFORMING TO
The System V version of sigpause() is standardized in POSIX.1-2001.
NOTES
History
The classical BSD version of this function appeared in 4.2BSD. It sets
the processs signal mask to sigmask. Unix95 standardized the incom
patible System V version of this function, which removes only the spec
ified signal sig from the processs signal mask. The unfortunate situ
ation with two incompatible functions with the same name was solved by
the sigsuspend(2) function, that takes a sigset_t * argument (instead
of an int).
Linux Notes
On Linux, this routine is a system call only on the Sparc (sparc64)
architecture.
Libc4 and libc5 only know about the BSD version.
Glibc uses the BSD version if the _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro is
defined and none of _POSIX_SOURCE, _POSIX_C_SOURCE, _XOPEN_SOURCE,
_GNU_SOURCE, or _SVID_SOURCE is defined. The System V version is used
if _XOPEN_SOURCE is defined.
SEE ALSO
kill(2), sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2), sigsuspend(2), sigblock(3),
sigvec(3), feature_test_macros(7)
COLOPHON
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Linux 2005-12-01 SIGPAUSE(3)
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