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| author | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-18 11:12:35 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> | 2008-10-29 14:54:12 -0500 |
| commit | 7acf5ebe435e3bc8425a4045eb16bd62afdde8e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 0a2e397956e570c741f5550c12e7453876960681 | |
| parent | 67db0c8390ba75cfada8fc3deb771625973ce9ef (diff) | |
| download | man-pages-7acf5ebe435e3bc8425a4045eb16bd62afdde8e7.tar.gz | |
sigaction.2: Clarify that sa_mask affects the *per-thread* signal mask
The page didn't previously clearly explain the scope of the
signal mask that is affected by sa_mask.
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | man2/sigaction.2 | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/man2/sigaction.2 b/man2/sigaction.2 index 48cf121747..bf5d2bb297 100644 --- a/man2/sigaction.2 +++ b/man2/sigaction.2 @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ .\" 2005-09-15, mtk, split sigpending(), sigprocmask(), sigsuspend() .\" out of this page into separate pages. .\" -.TH SIGACTION 2 2008-10-04 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH SIGACTION 2 2008-10-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME sigaction \- examine and change a signal action .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -142,8 +142,10 @@ as its second argument and a pointer to a (cast to \fIvoid\ *\fP) as its third argument. .PP .I sa_mask -gives a mask of signals which should be blocked during execution of -the signal handler. +specifies a mask of signals which should be blocked +(i.e., added to the signal mask of the thread in which +the signal handler is invoked) +during execution of the signal handler. In addition, the signal which triggered the handler will be blocked, unless the .B SA_NODEFER |