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author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-15 19:43:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/pthread_kill.3 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/pthread_kill.3 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..0501c4fa --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man3/pthread_kill.3 @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright (c) 2009 Linux Foundation, written by Michael Kerrisk +.\" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.TH pthread_kill 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +pthread_kill \- send a signal to a thread +.SH LIBRARY +POSIX threads library +.RI ( libpthread ", " \-lpthread ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <signal.h> +.PP +.BI "int pthread_kill(pthread_t " thread ", int " sig ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR pthread_kill (): +.nf + _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 199506L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR pthread_kill () +function sends the signal +.I sig +to +.IR thread , +a thread in the same process as the caller. +The signal is asynchronously directed to +.IR thread . +.PP +If +.I sig +is 0, then no signal is sent, but error checking is still performed. +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, +.BR pthread_kill () +returns 0; +on error, it returns an error number, and no signal is sent. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINVAL +An invalid signal was specified. +.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 pthread_kill () +T} Thread safety MT-Safe +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH VERSIONS +The glibc implementation of +.BR pthread_kill () +gives an error +.RB ( EINVAL ) +on attempts to send either of the real-time signals +used internally by the NPTL threading implementation. +See +.BR nptl (7) +for details. +.PP +POSIX.1-2008 recommends that if an implementation detects the use +of a thread ID after the end of its lifetime, +.BR pthread_kill () +should return the error +.BR ESRCH . +The glibc implementation returns this error in the cases where +an invalid thread ID can be detected. +But note also that POSIX says that an attempt to use a thread ID whose +lifetime has ended produces undefined behavior, +and an attempt to use an invalid thread ID in a call to +.BR pthread_kill () +can, for example, cause a segmentation fault. +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +POSIX.1-2001. +.SH NOTES +Signal dispositions are process-wide: +if a signal handler is installed, +the handler will be invoked in the thread +.IR thread , +but if the disposition of the signal is "stop", "continue", or "terminate", +this action will affect the whole process. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR kill (2), +.BR sigaction (2), +.BR sigpending (2), +.BR pthread_self (3), +.BR pthread_sigmask (3), +.BR raise (3), +.BR pthreads (7), +.BR signal (7) |