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siginfo(3): Document SI_USER and SI_KERNEL signal codes.
MFC after: 1 week
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diff --git a/share/man/man3/siginfo.3 b/share/man/man3/siginfo.3
index 9452b08..f711653 100644
--- a/share/man/man3/siginfo.3
+++ b/share/man/man3/siginfo.3
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd December 8, 2005
+.Dd September 14, 2012
.Dt SIGINFO 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ signal generated by expiration of a timer set by
signal generated by completion of an asynchronous I/O request
.It Ta Dv SI_MESGQ Ta
signal generated by arrival of a message on an empty message queue
+.It Ta Dv SI_KERNEL Ta
+signal generated by miscellaneous parts of the kernel
.El
.Pp
In addition, the following signal-specific information is available:
@@ -235,6 +237,10 @@ or
Finally, the following code-specific information is available:
.Bl -column ".Dv SI_QUEUE" ".Va si_overrun"
.It Sy "Code Member Value"
+.It Dv SI_USER Ta Va si_pid Ta
+the process ID that sent the signal
+.It Ta Va si_uid Ta
+real user ID of the process that sent the signal
.It Dv SI_QUEUE Ta Va si_value Ta
the value passed to
.Xr sigqueue 2
@@ -277,6 +283,14 @@ signal is queued when a process changed its status or exited.
.Tn POSIX
Realtime Extensions like aio, timer, and message queue also queue
signals.
+Signals with code
+.Dv SI_USER
+or
+.Dv SI_KERNEL
+are only queued if there are sufficient resources;
+otherwise,
+.Dv SI_NOINFO
+results.
For some hardware architectures, the exact value of
.Va si_addr
might not be available.
@@ -289,7 +303,8 @@ might not be available.
.Xr sigwaitinfo 2 ,
.Xr timer_create 2 ,
.Xr timer_settime 2 ,
-.Xr waitpid 2
+.Xr waitpid 2 ,
+.Xr pthread_kill 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Vt siginfo_t
@@ -300,6 +315,12 @@ Full support for
.Tn POSIX
signal information first appeared in
.Fx 7.0 .
+The codes
+.Dv SI_USER
+and
+.Dv SI_KERNEL
+can be generated as of
+.Fx 8.1 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This manual page was written by
.An "David Xu" Aq davidxu@FreeBSD.org .
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