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SIGSUSPEND(2)		       System Calls Manual		   SIGSUSPEND(2)

NAME
     sigsuspend -- atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <signal.h>

     int
     sigsuspend(const sigset_t *sigmask);

DESCRIPTION
     The sigsuspend() system call temporarily changes the blocked signal mask to
     the  set to which sigmask points, and then waits for a signal to arrive; on
     return the previous set of masked signals is restored.  The signal mask set
     is usually empty to indicate that all signals are to be unblocked	for  the
     duration of the call.

     In normal usage, a signal is blocked using sigprocmask(2) to begin a criti-
     cal  section,  variables modified on the occurrence of the signal are exam-
     ined to determine that there is no work to be done, and the process  pauses
     awaiting work by using sigsuspend() with the previous mask returned by sig-
     procmask(2).

RETURN VALUES
     The  sigsuspend()	system	call always terminates by being interrupted, re-
     turning -1 with errno set to EINTR.

SEE ALSO
     pselect(2), sigaction(2), sigpending(2),  sigprocmask(2),	sigtimedwait(2),
     sigwait(2), sigwaitinfo(2), sigsetops(3)

STANDARDS
     The  sigsuspend() system call is expected to conform to ISO/IEC 9945-1:1990
     ("POSIX.1").

FreeBSD ports 15.quarterly	 August 16, 2013		   SIGSUSPEND(2)

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