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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-12-10 12:38:21 -0800
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2013-12-12 16:16:08 +1300
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sigpending.2: Note treatment of signals that are blocked *and* ignored
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
.\"
.\" 2005-09-15, mtk, Created new page by splitting off from sigaction.2
.\"
-.TH SIGPENDING 2 2013-04-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SIGPENDING 2 2013-12-11 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
sigpending \- examine pending signals
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,6 +68,10 @@ See
.BR sigsetops (3)
for details on manipulating signal sets.
+If a signal is both blocked and has a disposition of "ignored", it is
+.I not
+added to the mask of pending signals when generated.
+
The set of signals that is pending for a thread
is the union of the set of signals that is pending for that thread
and the set of signals that is pending for the process as a whole; see