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Manual Pages  — SIGEVENT

NAME

sigevent – asynchronous event notification

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

DESCRIPTION

Some operations permit threads to request asynchronous notification of events via a struct sigevent structure. This structure contains several fields that describe the requested notification:
Type Member Description

int
sigev_notify notification method

int
sigev_signo signal number

union sigval
sigev_value signal value

int
sigev_notify_kqueuekqueue(2) file descriptor

unsigned short
sigev_notify_kevent_flags kevent flags

lwpid_t
sigev_notify_thread_id LWP ID

void (*)(union sigval)
sigev_notify_functioncallback function pointer

pthread_attr_t *
sigev_notify_attributescallback thread attributes

The sigev_notify field specifies the notification method used when the event triggers:
SIGEV_NONE No notification is sent.
SIGEV_SIGNAL The signal sigev_signo is queued as a real-time signal to the calling process. The value stored in sigev_value will be present in the si_value of the siginfo_t structure of the queued signal.
SIGEV_THREAD The notification function in sigev_notify_function is called in a separate thread context. The thread is created with the attributes specified in *sigev_notify_attributes. The value stored in sigev_value is passed as the sole argument to sigev_notify_function. If sigev_notify_attributes is NULL, the thread is created with default attributes.
SIGEV_KEVENT A new kevent is posted to the kqueue sigev_notify_kqueue. The udata member of the kevent structure contains the value stored in sigev_value. The meaning of other fields in the kevent are specific to the type of triggered event.
SIGEV_THREAD_ID
  The signal sigev_signo is queued to the thread whose LWP ID is sigev_notify_thread_id. The value stored in sigev_value will be present in the si_value of the siginfo_t structure of the queued signal.

NOTES

Note that programs wishing to use SIGEV_THREAD notifications must link against the POSIX Real\-time Library (librt, -lrt)

SEE ALSO

aio_read(2), mq_notify(2), timer_create(2), siginfo(3)

HISTORY

The sigevent structure first appeared in FreeBSD 3.3 .

STANDARDS

The struct sigevent type conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 ("POSIX.1").

SIGEVENT (3) February 25, 2020

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