SIGWAIT(2) BSD System Calls Manual SIGWAIT(2)

NAME
     ssiiggwwaaiitt - select a set of signals

SYNOPSIS
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     int
     ssiiggwwaaiitt(const sigsett *restrict set, int *restrict sig);

DESCRIPTION
     The ssiiggwwaaiitt() function selects a set of signals, specified by set.  If
     none of the selected signals are pending, ssiiggwwaaiitt() waits until one or
     more of the selected signals has been generated.  Then ssiiggwwaaiitt() atomi-
     cally clears one of the selected signals from the set of pending signals
     for the process and sets the location pointed to by sig to the signal
     number that was cleared.

     The signals specified by set should be blocked, but not ignored, at the
     time of the call to ssiiggwwaaiitt().

     Processes which call ssiiggwwaaiitt() on ignored signals will wait indefinitely.
     Ignored signals are dropped immediately by the system, before delivery to
     a waiting process.

RETURN VALUES
     If successful, ssiiggwwaaiitt() returns 0 and sets the location pointed to by
     sig to the cleared signal number.  Otherwise, an error number is
     returned.

EERRRROORRSS
     ssiiggwwaaiitt() will fail if:

     [EINVAL]           set specifies one or more invalid signal numbers.

SEE ALSO
     pthreadsigmask(2), sigaction(2), sigpending(2), sigsuspend(2), pause(3)

STANDARDS
     ssiiggwwaaiitt() conforms to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1996 (``POSIX.1'')

BSD                             April 27, 2000                             BSD