gsignal(3) Library Functions Manual gsignal(3)
NAME
gsignal, ssignal - software signal facility
LIBRARY
Standard C library (libc, -lc)
SYNOPSIS
#include <signal.h>
typedef void (*sighandler_t)(int);
[[deprecated]] int gsignal(int signum);
[[deprecated]] sighandler_t ssignal(int signum, sighandler_t action);
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):
gsignal(), ssignal():
Since glibc 2.19:
_DEFAULT_SOURCE
glibc 2.19 and earlier:
_SVID_SOURCE
DESCRIPTION
Don't use these functions under Linux. Due to a historical mistake, un-
der Linux these functions are aliases for raise(3) and signal(2), re-
spectively.
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 gsig-
nal(), 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 argument signum, and returns the value returned by that function.
The range of possible values signum varies (often 1–15 or 1–17).
ATTRIBUTES
For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).
┌────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────┬─────────────────┐
│ Interface │ Attribute │ Value │
├────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ gsignal() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │
├────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────┼─────────────────┤
│ ssignal() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe sigintr │
└────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────┴─────────────────┘
STANDARDS
None.
HISTORY
AIX, DG/UX, HP-UX, SCO, Solaris, Tru64. They are called obsolete under
most of these systems, and are broken under glibc. Some systems also
have gsignal_r() and ssignal_r().
SEE ALSO
kill(2), signal(2), raise(3)
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