The
sigwait()
system call selects a set of signals, specified by
set.
If none of the selected signals are pending,
sigwait()
waits until one or more of the selected signals has been generated.
Then
sigwait()
atomically clears one of the selected signals from the set of pending signals
(for the process or for the current thread) and sets the location pointed to by
sig
to the signal number that was cleared.
The signals specified by
set
should be blocked at the time of the call to
sigwait().
If more than one thread is using
sigwait()
to wait for the same signal, no more than one of these threads will return from
sigwait()
with the signal number.
If more than a single thread is blocked in
sigwait()
for a signal when that signal is generated for the process, it is unspecified
which of the waiting threads returns from
sigwait().
If the signal is generated for a specific thread, as by
pthread_kill(),
only that thread will return.
Should any of the multiple pending signals in the range
SIGRTMIN
to
SIGRTMAX
be
selected, it will be the lowest numbered one.
The selection order between realtime
and non-realtime signals, or between multiple pending non-realtime signals,
is unspecified.
