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sigwait(2)							    sigwait(2)

NAME
       sigwait(),  sigwaitinfo(), sigtimedwait() - synchronously accept a sig‐
       nal

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION
       The function atomically selects and clears a pending  signal  from  set
       and  returns  the  signal number in the location pointed to by sig.  If
       none of the signals in set is pending at the  time  of  the  call,  the
       calling thread will be suspended until one or more signals become pend‐
       ing or the thread is interrupted by an unblocked, caught	 signal.   The
       signals	in set should be blocked at the time of the call to Otherwise,
       the behavior is undefined.

       If there are multiple signals queued for the  selected  signal  number,
       will  return with the first queued signal and the remainder will remain
       queued.	If any	of  multiple  pending  signals	in  the	 range	to  is
       selected,  the  lowest numbered signal will be returned.	 The selection
       order between realtime and nonrealtime  signals,	 or  between  multiple
       pending nonrealtime signals, is unspecified.

       If  more	 than  one thread in a process is in for the same signal, only
       one thread will return  from  with  the	signal	number;	 which	thread
       returns is undefined.

       has the same behavior as if the info parameter is If the info parameter
       is not has the same behavior as except that the selected signal	number
       is  returned  in the si_signo field of the info parameter and the cause
       of the signal is returned in the si_code field.	If any value is queued
       to  the	selected  signal, the first such queued value will be dequeued
       and stored in the si_value member of info and the system resource  used
       to  queue the signal will be released and made available to queue other
       signals. If no value is queued, the contents of the si_value member  is
       undefined.  If  no  further signals are queued for the selected signal,
       the pending indication for that signal will be reset.

       has the same behavior as except that will only wait for the time inter‐
       val specified by the timeout parameter if none of the signals specified
       by set are pending at the time of the call.  If the  timeout  parameter
       specifies  a  zero-valued  time	interval, then will return immediately
       with an error if no signals in set are pending at the time of the call.
       If the timeout parameter is the behavior is undefined.

APPLICATION USAGE
       For a given signal number, the sigwait family of routines should not be
       used in conjunction with or any other  functions	 which	change	signal
       action.	If they are used together, the results are undefined.

   Threads Considerations
       The  sigwait  family  of routines enable a thread to synchronously wait
       for signals.  This makes the sigwait routines ideal for	handling  sig‐
       nals  in a multithreaded process.  The suggested method for signal han‐
       dling in a multithreaded process is to have all threads block the  sig‐
       nals  of interest and dedicate one thread to call a sigwait function to
       wait for the signals.  When a  signal  causes  a	 sigwait  function  to
       return,	the  code to handle the signal can be placed immediately after
       the return from the sigwait routine.  After the signal  is  handled,  a
       sigwait function can again be called to wait for another signal.

       In  order to ensure that the dedicated thread handles the signal, it is
       essential that all threads, including the thread	 issuing  the  sigwait
       call,  block  the  signals of interest.	Otherwise, the signal could be
       delivered to a thread other than the dedicated signal handling  thread.
       This  could result in the default action being carried out for the sig‐
       nal.  It is important that the thread issuing  the  sigwait  call  also
       block  the  signal.   This  will	 prevent signals from carrying out the
       default signal action while the dedicated  signal  handling  thread  is
       between calls to a sigwait function.

RETURN VALUE
       Upon  successful	 completion,  stores the signal number selected in the
       location pointed to by sig and returns with a value of (zero).	Other‐
       wise,  it  returns an error number to indicate the error.  The variable
       is NOT set if an error occurs.

       Upon successful completion, and will return the selected signal number.
       Otherwise a value of -1 is returned and is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       If  any	of  the following conditions occur, the sigwait family of rou‐
       tines will return the following error number:

	      [EAGAIN]	     was called and no signal in the set parameter was
			     delivered	within	the time interval specified by
			     the timeout parameter.

       If any of the following conditions occur and the condition is detected,
       the sigwait family of routines will fail and return the following error
       number:

	      [EINVAL]	     set contains an  invalid  or  unsupported	signal
			     number.

	      [EINVAL]	     was  called and the timeout parameter specified a
			     tv_nsec value less than zero or greater  than  or
			     equal  to	1000  million,	or a tv_sec value less
			     than zero or greater than or equal to  2147483648
			     (that  is, a value too large to be represented as
			     a signed 32-bit integer).

	      [EINTR]	     The wait was interrupted by an unblocked,	caught
			     signal.

	      [EFAULT]	     At	 least	one  of the set, sig, info, or timeout
			     parameters references an illegal address.

AUTHOR
       sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait()	 were  derived	from  the  IEEE	 POSIX
       P1003.1b standard.

       sigwait() was derived from the IEEE POSIX P1003.1c standard.

SEE ALSO
       pause(2),   sigaction(2),  sigpending(2),  sigsuspend(2),  pthread_sig‐
       mask(3T), signal(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
								    sigwait(2)
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