signals/signal_functions.h

This is signals/signal_functions.h, an example to accompany the book, The Linux Programming Interface.

This file is not printed in the book; it is the header file for signal_functions.c (Listing 20-4, page 408).

The source code file is copyright 2024, Michael Kerrisk, and is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 3.

In the listing below, the names of Linux system calls and C library functions are hyperlinked to manual pages from the Linux man-pages project, and the names of functions implemented in the book are hyperlinked to the implementations of those functions.

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/* signal_functions.h

   Header file for signal_functions.c.
*/
#ifndef SIGNAL_FUNCTIONS_H
#define SIGNAL_FUNCTIONS_H

#include <signal.h>
#include "tlpi_hdr.h"

int printSigMask(FILE *of, const char *msg);

int printPendingSigs(FILE *of, const char *msg);

void printSigset(FILE *of, const char *ldr, const sigset_t *mask);

#endif

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