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.Dd May 16, 1995 .Dt SIGSUSPEND 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sigsuspend .Nd atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS n signal.h .Ft int .Fn sigsuspend "const sigset_t *sigmask" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn sigsuspend system call temporarily changes the blocked signal mask to the set to which .Fa sigmask points, and then waits for a signal to arrive; on return the previous set of masked signals is restored. The signal mask set is usually empty to indicate that all signals are to be unblocked for the duration of the call.
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$FreeBSD: head/lib/libc/sys/sigsuspend.2 108028 2002-12-18 09:22:32Z ru $
.Dd May 16, 1995 .Dt SIGSUSPEND 2 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm sigsuspend .Nd atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt .Sh LIBRARY .Lb libc .Sh SYNOPSIS n signal.h .Ft int .Fn sigsuspend "const sigset_t *sigmask" .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn sigsuspend system call temporarily changes the blocked signal mask to the set to which .Fa sigmask points, and then waits for a signal to arrive; on return the previous set of masked signals is restored. The signal mask set is usually empty to indicate that all signals are to be unblocked for the duration of the call.
p In normal usage, a signal is blocked using .Xr sigprocmask 2 to begin a critical section, variables modified on the occurrence of the signal are examined to determine that there is no work to be done, and the process pauses awaiting work by using .Fn sigsuspend with the previous mask returned by .Xr sigprocmask . .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn sigsuspend system call always terminates by being interrupted, returning -1 with .Va errno set to .Er EINTR . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr sigprocmask 2 , .Xr sigsetops 3 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn sigsuspend system call is expected to conform to .St -p1003.1-90 .