SIGWAIT(3) BSD Library Functions Manual SIGWAIT(3)NAMEsigwait — select a set of signals
LIBRARY
POSIX Threads Library (libpthread, -lpthread)
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
int
sigwait(const sigset_t *set, int *sig);
DESCRIPTION
The sigwait() function selects a set of signals, specified by set. If
none of the selected signals are pending, sigwait() waits until one or
more of the selected signals has been generated. Then sigwait() atomi‐
cally clears one of the selected signals from the set of pending signals
for the process and sets the location pointed to by sig to the signal
number that was cleared.
The signals specified by set should be blocked at the time of the call to
sigwait().
RETURN VALUES
If successful, sigwait() returns 0 and sets the location pointed to by
sig to the cleared signal number. Otherwise, an error number is
returned.
ERRORSsigwait() will fail if:
[EINVAL] set specifies one or more invalid signal numbers.
SEE ALSOsigaction(2), sigpending(2), sigsuspend(2), pause(3), pthread_sigmask(3)STANDARDSsigwait() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (“POSIX.1”).
BSD April 15, 2009 BSD