SIGPROCMASK(3P)

🌸 SIGPROCMASK(3P) — the POSIX Programmer's Manual, bestie edition 🌸

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✨ PROLOG ✨

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👑 NAME 👑

sigprocmask — examine and change blocked signals

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

#include <signal.h>

int sigprocmask(int how, const sigset_t *restrict set,
    sigset_t *restrict oset);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Refer to pthread_sigmask().

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💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form from IEEE Std 1003.1-2017, Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 7, 2018 Edition, Copyright (C) 2018 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.

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The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html .

Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are most likely to have been introduced during the conversion of the source files to man page format. To report such errors, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html .

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