siginterrupt(3)

NAME#

siginterrupt - allow signals to interrupt system calls

LIBRARY#

Standard C library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS#

#include <signal.h>

[[deprecated]] int siginterrupt(int \nsig\n, int \nflag\n);

siginterrupt():

\n
    _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500
\n
        || /* Since glibc 2.12: */ _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L
\n
        || /* glibc <= 2.19: */ _BSD_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION#

The siginterrupt() function changes the restart behavior when a system call is interrupted by the signal sig. If the flag argument is false (0), then system calls will be restarted if interrupted by the specified signal sig. This is the default behavior in Linux.

If the flag argument is true (1) and no data has been transferred, then a system call interrupted by the signal sig will return -1 and errno will be set to EINTR.

If the flag argument is true (1) and data transfer has started, then the system call will be interrupted and will return the actual amount of data transferred.

RETURN VALUE#

The siginterrupt() function returns 0 on success. It returns -1 if the signal number sig is invalid, with errno set to indicate the error.

ERRORS#

EINVAL

The specified signal number is invalid.

ATTRIBUTES#

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

STANDARDS#

POSIX.1-2008.

HISTORY#

4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001. Obsolete in POSIX.1-2008, recommending the use of sigaction(2) with the SA_RESTART flag instead.

SEE ALSO#

signal(2)