Name
siginterrupt — allow signals to interrupt system calls
Synopsis
#include <signal.h>
int
siginterrupt( |
int sig, |
int flag); |
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DESCRIPTION
The siginterrupt() function
changes the restart behavior when a system call is
interrupted by the signal sig. If the flag argument is false (0),
then system calls will be restarted if interrupted by the
specified signal sig.
This is the default behavior in Linux.
If the flag
argument is true (1) and no data has been transferred, then a
system call interrupted by the signal sig will return −1 and
errno will be set to
EINTR.
If the flag
argument is true (1) and data transfer has started, then the
system call will be interrupted and will return the actual
amount of data transferred.
RETURN VALUE
The siginterrupt() function
returns 0 on success. It returns −1 if the signal
number sig is
invalid, with errno set to
indicate the cause of the error.
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 marks siginterrupt() as obsolete, recommending
the use of sigaction(2) with the
SA_RESTART flag instead.
COLOPHON
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bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man−pages/.
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