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.
However, when a new signal handler is specified with the
signal(2)
function, the system call is interrupted by default.
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 the global variable 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, or -1 if the
signal number sig is invalid.
ERRORS
EINVAL
The specified signal number is invalid.
CONFORMING TO
4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
POSIX.1-2008 marks
siginterrupt()
as obsolete.
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man-pages
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