NAME
sigqueue - queue a signal and data to a process SYNOPSIS
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int sigqueue(pidt pid, int sig, const union sigval value); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see featuretestmacros(7)): sigqueue(): POSIXCSOURCE >= 199309L DESCRIPTION sigqueue() sends the signal specified in sig to the process whose PID is given in pid. The permissions required to send a signal are the same as for kill(2). As with kill(2), the null signal (0) can be used to check if a process with a given PID exists. The value argument is used to specify an accompanying item of data (either an integer or a pointer value) to be sent with the signal, and has the following type: union sigval { int sivalint; void *sivalptr; }; If the receiving process has installed a handler for this signal using the SASIGINFO flag to sigaction(2), then it can obtain this data via the sivalue field of the siginfot structure passed as the second argument to the handler. Furthermore, the sicode field of that struc‐ ture will be set to SIQUEUE. RETURN VALUE On success, sigqueue() returns 0, indicating that the signal was suc‐ cessfully queued to the receiving process. Otherwise -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error. ERRORS EAGAIN The limit of signals which may be queued has been reached. (See signal(7) for further information.) EINVAL sig was invalid. EPERM The process does not have permission to send the signal to the receiving process. For the required permissions, see kill(2). ESRCH No process has a PID matching pid. VERSIONS This system call first appeared in Linux 2.2. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7). ┌───────────┬───────────────┬─────────┐ │Interface │ Attribute │ Value │ ├───────────┼───────────────┼─────────┤
│sigqueue() │ Thread safety │ MT-Safe │ └───────────┴───────────────┴─────────┘ CONFORMING TO
POSIX.1-2001. NOTES If this function results in the sending of a signal to the process that invoked it, and that signal was not blocked by the calling thread, and no other threads were willing to handle this signal (either by having it unblocked, or by waiting for it using sigwait(3)), then at least some signal must be delivered to this thread before this function returns. On Linux, this function is implemented using the rtsigqueueinfo(2) system call. The system call differs in its third argument, which is the siginfot structure that will be supplied to the receiving process's signal handler or returned by the receiving process's sig‐ timedwait(2) call. Inside the glibc sigqueue() wrapper, this argument, uinfo, is initialized as follows: uinfo.sisigno = sig; /* argument supplied to sigqueue() */ uinfo.sicode = SIQUEUE; uinfo.sipid = getpid(); /* Process ID of sender */ uinfo.siuid = getuid(); /* Real UID of sender */ uinfo.sivalue = val; /* argument supplied to sigqueue() */ SEE ALSO kill(2), rtsigqueueinfo(2), sigaction(2), signal(2), pthreadsigqueue(3), sigwait(3), signal(7) COLOPHON
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