sigprocmask man page on HP-UX

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sigprocmask(2)							sigprocmask(2)

NAME
       sigprocmask() - examine and change blocked signals

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       The  function  allows  the  calling thread to examine and/or change its
       signal mask.

       If the argument set is not a null pointer, it points to a set  of  sig‐
       nals to be used to change the currently blocked set.

       The argument how indicates the way in which the set is changed and con‐
       sists of one of the following values:

	      The resulting set will be the union
				of the current set and the signal set  pointed
				to by set.

	      The resulting set will be the signal set pointed to by set.

	      The resulting set will be the intersection of the
				current	 set  and the complement of the signal
				set pointed to by set.

       If the argument oset is not a null pointer, the previous mask is stored
       in  the	location  pointed  to  by oset.	 If set is a null pointer, the
       value of the argument how is not significant and	 the  thread's	signal
       mask is unchanged; thus the call can be used to inquire about currently
       blocked signals.

       If there are any pending unblocked signals after the call to  at	 least
       one of those signals will be delivered before the call to returns.

       It  is  not  possible   to   block   those   signals   which cannot  be
       ignored.	 This is enforced by the system without causing an error to be
       indicated.

       If  any	of  the	 or  signals are generated while they are blocked, the
       result is undefined, unless the signal was generated by a call to or

       If fails, the thread's signal mask is not changed.

RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, returns 0.  Otherwise −1  is	 returned,  is
       set  to	indicate  the  error,  and  the	 thread's  signal mask will be
       unchanged.

ERRORS
       The function will fail if:

	      The value of the
			     how argument is not equal to one of  the  defined
			     values.

	      set	     or	 oset points to an invalid address.  The reli‐
			     able detection of this  error  is	implementation
			     dependent.

APPLICATION USAGE
   Threads Considerations
       Each  thread  maintains	its  own  blocked  signal  mask.  In a single-
       threaded process, modifies only the  calling  thread's  blocked	signal
       mask.

       Use of this function is unspecified in a multithreaded process.

       For more information regarding signals and threads, refer to signal(5).

   LWP (Lightweight Processes) Considerations
       modifies only the calling LWP's blocked signal mask.

AUTHOR
       was derived from the IEEE POSIX 1003.1-1988 Standard.

SEE ALSO
       sigaction(2), sigpending(2), sigsuspend(2), sigsetops(3C), pthread_sig‐
       mask(3T), signal(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
								sigprocmask(2)
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