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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-09-19 20:50:34 +0200
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2019-09-19 20:51:15 +0200
commitdebedd946c19b24b637d2d5d49f3ba2fa286df56 (patch)
tree9344f42bf21bbf13c8a80fa4b098920a8b68daa0
parent5dd76c44497dd43506f79995a8c7f84a105864e4 (diff)
downloadman-pages-debedd946c19b24b637d2d5d49f3ba2fa286df56.tar.gz
rt_sigqueueinfo.2: Minor restructuring in preparation for next patch
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--man2/rt_sigqueueinfo.219
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/man2/rt_sigqueueinfo.2 b/man2/rt_sigqueueinfo.2
index c2990b6211..9f393972aa 100644
--- a/man2/rt_sigqueueinfo.2
+++ b/man2/rt_sigqueueinfo.2
@@ -82,16 +82,21 @@ This must be one of the
.B SI_*
codes in the Linux kernel source file
.IR include/asm-generic/siginfo.h ,
-with the restriction that the code must be negative
-(i.e., cannot be
+with the following restrictions:
+.RS
+.IP * 3
+The code can't be a value greater than or equal to zero.
+In particular, it can't be
.BR SI_USER ,
which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent by
-.BR kill (2))
-and cannot (since Linux 2.6.39) be
-.BR SI_TKILL
-(which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent using
+.BR kill (2).
+.IP *
+The code can't (since Linux 2.6.39) be
+.BR SI_TKILL ,
+which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent using
.\" tkill(2) or
-.BR tgkill (2)).
+.BR tgkill (2).
+.RE
.TP
.I si_pid
This should be set to a process ID,