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sigqueue() - Unix, Linux System Call
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NAME
sigqueue - queue a signal and data to a process
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
int sigqueue(pid_t pid, int sig, const union sigval value); DESCRIPTION
sigqueue() sends the signal specified in
sig to the process whose PID is given in
pid. The permissions required to send a signal are the same as for
kill(2).
As with
kill(2),
the null signal (0) can be used to check if a process with a given
PID exists.
The
value argument is used to specify an accompanying item of data (either an integer
or a pointer value) to be sent with the signal, and has the following type:
union sigval {
int sival_int;
void *sival_ptr;
};
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If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using the
SA_SIGINFO flag to
sigaction(2),
then it can obtain this data via the
si_value field of the
siginfo_t structure passed as the second argument to the handler.
Furthermore, the
si_code field of that structure will be set to
SI_QUEUE. RETURN VALUE
On success,
sigqueue() returns 0, indicating that the signal was successfully
queued to the receiving process.
Otherwise -1 is returned and
errno is set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
Tag | Description |
EAGAIN |
The limit of signals which may be queued has been reached.
(See
signal(7)
for further information.)
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EINVAL |
sig was invalid.
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EPERM |
The process does not have permission to send the signal
to the receiving process.
For the required permissions, see
kill(2).
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ESRCH |
No process has a PID matching
pid. |
NOTES
If this function results in the sending of a signal to the process
that invoked it, and that signal was not blocked by the calling thread,
and no other threads were willing to handle this signal (either by
having it unblocked, or by waiting for it using
sigwait(3)),
then at least some signal must be delivered to this thread before this
function returns.
CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001
SEE ALSO
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