From 399644e47874bff147afb19c89228901ac39340e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Baumann Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 21:40:15 +0200 Subject: Adding upstream version 6.05.01. Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann --- man3/siginterrupt.3 | 99 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man3/siginterrupt.3 (limited to 'man3/siginterrupt.3') diff --git a/man3/siginterrupt.3 b/man3/siginterrupt.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f4c246 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/siginterrupt.3 @@ -0,0 +1,99 @@ +'\" t +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:40:51 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Sun Apr 14 16:20:34 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) +.TH siginterrupt 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01" +.SH NAME +siginterrupt \- allow signals to interrupt system calls +.SH LIBRARY +Standard C library +.RI ( libc ", " \-lc ) +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include +.PP +.BI "[[deprecated]] int siginterrupt(int " sig ", int " flag ); +.fi +.PP +.RS -4 +Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see +.BR feature_test_macros (7)): +.RE +.PP +.BR siginterrupt (): +.nf + _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 +.\" || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED + || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L + || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The +.BR siginterrupt () +function changes the restart behavior when +a system call is interrupted by the signal \fIsig\fP. +If the \fIflag\fP +argument is false (0), then system calls will be restarted if interrupted +by the specified signal \fIsig\fP. +This is the default behavior in Linux. +.PP +If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and no data has been transferred, +then a system call interrupted by the signal \fIsig\fP will return \-1 +and \fIerrno\fP will be set to +.BR EINTR . +.PP +If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and data transfer has started, +then the system call will be interrupted and will return the actual +amount of data transferred. +.SH RETURN VALUE +The +.BR siginterrupt () +function returns 0 on success. +It returns \-1 if the +signal number +.I sig +is invalid, with +.I errno +set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EINVAL +The specified signal number is invalid. +.SH ATTRIBUTES +For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see +.BR attributes (7). +.TS +allbox; +lb lb lbx +l l l. +Interface Attribute Value +T{ +.na +.nh +.BR siginterrupt () +T} Thread safety T{ +.na +.nh +MT-Unsafe const:sigintr +T} +.TE +.sp 1 +.SH STANDARDS +POSIX.1-2008. +.SH HISTORY +4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. +Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008, +recommending the use of +.BR sigaction (2) +with the +.B SA_RESTART +flag instead. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR signal (2) -- cgit v1.2.3