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diff --git a/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man3/sigqueue.3 b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man3/sigqueue.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..90459043 --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/fedora-rawhide/man3/sigqueue.3 @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 2002 Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" added note on self-signaling, aeb, 2002-06-07 +.\" added note on CAP_KILL, mtk, 2004-06-16 +.\" +.TH sigqueue 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.06" +.SH NAME +sigqueue \- queue a signal and data to a process +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <signal.h> +.P +.BI "int sigqueue(pid_t " pid ", int " sig ", const union sigval " value ); +.fi +.P +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.P +.BR sigqueue (): +.nf + _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 199309L +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR sigqueue () +sends the signal specified in +.I sig +to the process whose PID is given in +.IR pid . +The permissions required to send a signal are the same as for +.BR kill (2). +As with +.BR kill (2), +the null signal (0) can be used to check if a process with a given +PID exists. +.P +The +.I value +argument is used to specify an accompanying item of data (either an integer +or a pointer value) to be sent with the signal, and has the following type: +.P +.in +4n +.EX +union sigval { + int sival_int; + void *sival_ptr; +}; +.EE +.in +.P +If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using the +.B SA_SIGINFO +flag to +.BR sigaction (2), +then it can obtain this data via the +.I si_value +field of the +.I siginfo_t +structure passed as the second argument to the handler. +Furthermore, the +.I si_code +field of that structure will be set to +.BR SI_QUEUE . +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, +.BR sigqueue () +returns 0, indicating that the signal was successfully +queued to the receiving process. +Otherwise, \-1 is returned and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EAGAIN +The limit of signals which may be queued has been reached. +(See +.BR signal (7) +for further information.) +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I sig +was invalid. +.TP +.B EPERM +The process does not have permission to send the signal +to the receiving process. +For the required permissions, see +.BR kill (2). +.TP +.B ESRCH +No process has a PID matching +.IR pid . +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lbx lb lb +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR sigqueue () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.SH VERSIONS +.SS C library/kernel differences +On Linux, +.BR sigqueue () +is implemented using the +.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2) +system call. +The system call differs in its third argument, which is the +.I siginfo_t +structure that will be supplied to the receiving process's +signal handler or returned by the receiving process's +.BR sigtimedwait (2) +call. +Inside the glibc +.BR sigqueue () +wrapper, this argument, +.IR uinfo , +is initialized as follows: +.P +.in +4n +.EX +uinfo.si_signo = sig; /* Argument supplied to sigqueue() */ +uinfo.si_code = SI_QUEUE; +uinfo.si_pid = getpid(); /* Process ID of sender */ +uinfo.si_uid = getuid(); /* Real UID of sender */ +uinfo.si_value = val; /* Argument supplied to sigqueue() */ +.EE +.in +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +Linux 2.2. +POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +If this function results in the sending of a signal to the process +that invoked it, and that signal was not blocked by the calling thread, +and no other threads were willing to handle this signal (either by +having it unblocked, or by waiting for it using +.BR sigwait (3)), +then at least some signal must be delivered to this thread before this +function returns. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR kill (2), +.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2), +.BR sigaction (2), +.BR signal (2), +.BR pthread_sigqueue (3), +.BR sigwait (3), +.BR signal (7) |