sigpending (2)

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(The comments found at the beginning of the groff file "man2/sigpending.2freebsd".)

NAME

sigpending - get pending signals

LIBRARY

Lb libc

SYNOPSIS

In signal.h Ft int Fn sigpending sigset_t *set

DESCRIPTION

The Fn sigpending system call returns a mask of the signals pending for delivery to the calling thread or the calling process in the location indicated by Fa set . Signals may be pending because they are currently masked, or transiently before delivery (although the latter case is not normally detectable).

RETURN VALUES

Rv -std sigpending

ERRORS

The Fn sigpending system call will fail if:

Bq Er EFAULT

The Fa set argument specified an invalid address.

SEE ALSO

sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2), sigsuspend(2), sigsetops(3)

STANDARDS

The Fn sigpending system call is expected to conform to St -p1003.1-90 .