sigpending(2)

sigpending2

Get pending signals

Usage

#include <signal.h>

int

sigpending(sigset_t *set);

Library

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

Overview

The 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 set. Signals may be pending because they are currently masked, or transiently before delivery (although the latter case is not normally detectable).

Return values

The sigpending() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

Errors

The sigpending() system call will fail if:

[EFAULT]

The set argument specified an invalid address.

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 43 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.1.7.1
  2. 2.2.2–3.4
  3. 3.5–3.5.1
  4. 4.0
  5. 4.1–4.2
  6. 4.3
  7. 4.4
  8. 4.5–4.11
  9. 5.0
  10. 5.1
  11. 5.2–6.3
  12. 6.4
  13. 7.0
  14. 7.1
  15. 7.2
  16. 7.3
  17. 7.4
  18. 8.0
  19. 8.1
  20. 8.2
  21. 8.3
  22. 8.4
  23. 9.0
  24. 9.1
  25. 9.2
  26. 9.3
  27. 10.0
  28. 10.1
  29. 10.2
  30. 10.3
  31. 10.4
  32. 11.0
  33. 11.1
  34. 11.2
  35. 11.3
  36. 11.4
  37. 12.0
  38. 12.1
  39. 12.2
  40. 12.3
  41. 12.4
  42. 13.0–13.2
  43. 13.3–14.5
  44. 15.0–16.0

Standards

The sigpending() system call is expected to conform to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990 (“POSIX.1”).

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