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1 | .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) |
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12 | .\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this |
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20 | .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by |
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22 | .\" | |
23 | .\" References consulted: | |
24 | .\" Linux libc source code | |
25 | .\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) | |
26 | .\" 386BSD man pages | |
27 | .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:40:51 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) | |
28 | .\" Modified Sun Apr 14 16:20:34 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl) | |
cc4615cc | 29 | .TH SIGINTERRUPT 3 2007-07-26 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual" |
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30 | .SH NAME |
31 | siginterrupt \- allow signals to interrupt system calls | |
32 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
33 | .nf | |
34 | .B #include <signal.h> | |
35 | .sp | |
36 | .BI "int siginterrupt(int " sig ", int " flag ); | |
37 | .fi | |
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38 | .sp |
39 | .in -4n | |
40 | Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see | |
41 | .BR feature_test_macros (7)): | |
42 | .in | |
43 | .sp | |
44 | .BR siginterrupt (): | |
45 | _BSD_SOURCE || _XOPEN_SOURCE\ >=\ 500 | |
fea681da | 46 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
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47 | The |
48 | .BR siginterrupt () | |
d9bfdb9c | 49 | function changes the restart behavior when |
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50 | a system call is interrupted by the signal \fIsig\fP. |
51 | If the \fIflag\fP | |
52 | argument is false (0), then system calls will be restarted if interrupted | |
53 | by the specified signal \fIsig\fP. | |
d9bfdb9c | 54 | This is the default behavior in Linux. |
c13182ef | 55 | However, when a new signal handler is specified with the |
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56 | .BR signal (2) |
57 | function, the system call is interrupted by default. | |
fea681da | 58 | .PP |
055e4eb7 | 59 | If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and no data has been transferred, |
fea681da | 60 | then a system call interrupted by the signal \fIsig\fP will return \-1 |
e859a67a | 61 | and the global variable \fIerrno\fP will be set to |
055e4eb7 | 62 | .BR EINTR . |
fea681da | 63 | .PP |
055e4eb7 | 64 | If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and data transfer has started, |
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65 | then the system call will be interrupted and will return the actual |
66 | amount of data transferred. | |
67 | .SH "RETURN VALUE" | |
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68 | The |
69 | .BR siginterrupt () | |
70 | function returns 0 on success, or \-1 if the | |
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71 | signal number \fIsig\fP is invalid. |
72 | .SH ERRORS | |
73 | .TP | |
74 | .B EINVAL | |
75 | The specified signal number is invalid. | |
76 | .SH "CONFORMING TO" | |
68e1685c | 77 | 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. |
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78 | POSIX.1-2008 marks |
79 | .BR siginterrupt () | |
80 | as obsolete. | |
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81 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
82 | .BR signal (2) |