Name
gsignal, ssignal — software signal facility
Synopsis
#include <signal.h> typedef void (*sighandler_t)(int);
int
gsignal( |
intsignum); |
sighandler_t ssignal( |
int | signum, |
| sighandler_t | action); |
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DESCRIPTION
Don't use these functions under Linux. Due to a historical mistake, under Linux these functions are aliases for raise(3) and signal(2), respectively.
Elsewhere, on System V-like systems, these functions
implement software signaling, entirely independent of the
classical signal(2) and kill(2) functions. The
function ssignal() defines the
action to take when the software signal with number
signum is raised
using the function gsignal(),
and returns the previous such action or SIG_DFL. The function gsignal() does the following: if no action
(or the action SIG_DFL) was
specified for signum,
then it does nothing and returns 0. If the action
SIG_IGN was specified for
signum, then it does
nothing and returns 1. Otherwise, it resets the action to
SIG_DFL and calls the action
function with parameter signum, and returns the value
returned by that function. The range of possible values
signum varies (often
1-15 or 1-17).
CONFORMING TO
These functions are available under AIX, DG/UX, HP-UX,
SCO, Solaris, Tru64. They are called obsolete under most of
these systems, and are broken under Linux libc and glibc.
Some systems also have gsignal_r() and ssignal_r().
COLOPHON
This page is part of release 2.79 of the Linux man-pages project. A
description of the project, and information about reporting
bugs, can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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