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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
       critical	section, variables modified on the occurrence  of  the	signal
       are  examined  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	sigprocmask(2).

RETURN VALUES
       The  sigsuspend()  system  call always terminates by being interrupted,
       returning -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	13.2			August 16, 2013			 SIGSUSPEND(2)

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