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SIGQUEUE(3P) POSIX Programmer's Manual SIGQUEUE(3P)

PROLOG top

   This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The
   Linux implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
   corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
   the interface may not be implemented on Linux.

NAME top

   sigqueue — queue a signal to a process

SYNOPSIS top

   #include <signal.h>

   int sigqueue(pid_t _pid_, int _signo_, union sigval _value_);

DESCRIPTION top

   The _sigqueue_() function shall cause the signal specified by _signo_
   to be sent with the value specified by _value_ to the process
   specified by _pid_.  If _signo_ is zero (the null signal), error
   checking is performed but no signal is actually sent. The null
   signal can be used to check the validity of _pid_.

   The conditions required for a process to have permission to queue
   a signal to another process are the same as for the _kill_()
   function.

   The _sigqueue_() function shall return immediately. If SA_SIGINFO is
   set for _signo_ and if the resources were available to queue the
   signal, the signal shall be queued and sent to the receiving
   process. If SA_SIGINFO is not set for _signo_, then _signo_ shall be
   sent at least once to the receiving process; it is unspecified
   whether _value_ shall be sent to the receiving process as a result
   of this call.

   If the value of _pid_ causes _signo_ to be generated for the sending
   process, and if _signo_ is not blocked for the calling thread and if
   no other thread has _signo_ unblocked or is waiting in a _sigwait_()
   function for _signo_, either _signo_ or at least the pending,
   unblocked signal shall be delivered to the calling thread before
   the _sigqueue_() function returns. Should any multiple pending
   signals in the range SIGRTMIN to SIGRTMAX be selected for
   delivery, it shall be the lowest numbered one.  The selection
   order between realtime and non-realtime signals, or between
   multiple pending non-realtime signals, is unspecified.

RETURN VALUE top

   Upon successful completion, the specified signal shall have been
   queued, and the _sigqueue_() function shall return a value of zero.
   Otherwise, the function shall return a value of -1 and set _[errno](../man3/errno.3.html)_
   to indicate the error.

ERRORS top

   The _sigqueue_() function shall fail if:

   **EAGAIN** No resources are available to queue the signal. The process
          has already queued {SIGQUEUE_MAX} signals that are still
          pending at the receiver(s), or a system-wide resource limit
          has been exceeded.

   **EINVAL** The value of the _signo_ argument is an invalid or
          unsupported signal number.

   **EPERM** The process does not have appropriate privileges to send
          the signal to the receiving process.

   **ESRCH** The process _pid_ does not exist.

   _The following sections are informative._

EXAMPLES top

   None.

APPLICATION USAGE top

   None.

RATIONALE top

   The _sigqueue_() function allows an application to queue a realtime
   signal to itself or to another process, specifying the
   application-defined value. This is common practice in realtime
   applications on existing realtime systems.  It was felt that
   specifying another function in the _sig_...  name space already
   carved out for signals was preferable to extending the interface
   to _kill_().

   Such a function became necessary when the put/get event function
   of the message queues was removed. It should be noted that the
   _sigqueue_() function implies reduced performance in a security-
   conscious implementation as the access permissions between the
   sender and receiver have to be checked on each send when the _pid_
   is resolved into a target process. Such access checks were
   necessary only at message queue open in the previous interface.

   The standard developers required that _sigqueue_() have the same
   semantics with respect to the null signal as _kill_(), and that the
   same permission checking be used. But because of the difficulty of
   implementing the ``broadcast'' semantic of _kill_() (for example, to
   process groups) and the interaction with resource allocation, this
   semantic was not adopted. The _sigqueue_() function queues a signal
   to a single process specified by the _pid_ argument.

   The _sigqueue_() function can fail if the system has insufficient
   resources to queue the signal. An explicit limit on the number of
   queued signals that a process could send was introduced. While the
   limit is ``per-sender'', this volume of POSIX.1‐2017 does not
   specify that the resources be part of the state of the sender.
   This would require either that the sender be maintained after exit
   until all signals that it had sent to other processes were handled
   or that all such signals that had not yet been acted upon be
   removed from the queue(s) of the receivers. This volume of
   POSIX.1‐2017 does not preclude this behavior, but an
   implementation that allocated queuing resources from a system-wide
   pool (with per-sender limits) and that leaves queued signals
   pending after the sender exits is also permitted.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS top

   None.

SEE ALSO top

   _Section 2.8.1_, _Realtime Signals_

   The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2017, [signal.h(0p)](../man0/signal.h.0p.html)
   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.  In the event of any discrepancy between
   this version and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard,
   the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the referee
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