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Manual Pages  — UCONTEXT

NAME

ucontext – user thread context

CONTENTS

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <ucontext.h>

DESCRIPTION

The ucontext_t type is a structure type suitable for holding the context for a user thread of execution. A thread's context includes its stack, saved registers, and list of blocked signals.

The ucontext_t structure contains at least these fields:

ucontext_t *uc_link
  context to assume when this one returns
sigset_t uc_sigmask
  signals being blocked
stack_t uc_stack
  stack area
mcontext_t uc_mcontext
  saved registers

The uc_link field points to the context to resume when this context's entry point function returns. If uc_link is equal to NULL, then the process exits when this context returns.

The uc_mcontext field is machine-dependent and should be treated as opaque by portable applications.

The following functions are defined to manipulate ucontext_t structures:

int getcontext(ucontext_t *);
ucontext_t * getcontextx(void);
int setcontext(const ucontext_t *);
void makecontext(ucontext_t *, void (*)(void), int, ...);
int swapcontext(ucontext_t *, const ucontext_t *);

SEE ALSO

sigaltstack(2), getcontext(3), getcontextx(3), makecontext(3)

UCONTEXT (3) September 10, 2002

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