NAME

siginterrupt - allow signals to interrupt functions

SYNOPSIS

[XSI] #include <signal.h>

int siginterrupt(int sig, int flag);

DESCRIPTION

The siginterrupt() function shall change the restart behavior when a function is interrupted by the specified signal. The function siginterrupt(sig, flag) has an effect as if implemented as:

int siginterrupt(int sig, int flag) {
    int ret;
    struct sigaction act;


    (void) sigaction(sig, NULL, &act);
    if (flag)
        act.sa_flags &= ˜SA_RESTART;
    else
        act.sa_flags |= SA_RESTART;
    ret = sigaction(sig, &act, NULL);
    return ret;
}

RETURN VALUE

Upon successful completion, siginterrupt() shall return 0; otherwise, -1 shall be returned and errno set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

The siginterrupt() function shall fail if:

[EINVAL]

The sig argument is not a valid signal number.

EXAMPLES

None.

APPLICATION USAGE

The siginterrupt() function supports programs written to historical system interfaces. A conforming application, when being written or rewritten, should use sigaction() with the SA_RESTART flag instead of siginterrupt().

RATIONALE

None.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

None.

SEE ALSO

Signal Concepts, sigaction(), the Base Definitions volume of IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, <signal.h>

CHANGE HISTORY

First released in Issue 4, Version 2.

Issue 5

Moved from X/OPEN UNIX extension to BASE.

Issue 6

IEEE Std 1003.1-2001/Cor 1-2002, item XSH/TC1/D6/59 is applied, correcting the declaration in the sample implementation given in the DESCRIPTION.