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+.\" Copyright (c) 2005 David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org>
+.\" All rights reserved.
+.\"
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+.\" $FreeBSD$
+.\"
+.Dd November 11, 2005
+.Dt SIGQUEUE 2
+.Os
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm sigqueue
+.Nd "queue a signal to a process (REALTIME)"
+.Sh LIBRARY
+.Lb libc
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.In signal.h
+.Ft int
+.Fn sigqueue "pid_t pid" "int signo" "const union sigval value"
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+The
+.Fn sigqueue
+system call causes the signal specified by
+.Fa signo
+to be sent with the value specified by
+.Fa value
+to the process specified by
+.Fa pid .
+If
+.Fa 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.
+.Pp
+The conditions required for a process to have permission to queue a
+signal to another process are the same as for the
+.Xr kill 2
+system call.
+The
+.Fn sigqueue
+system call queues a signal to a single process specified by the
+.Fa pid
+argument.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fn sigqueue
+system call returns immediately.
+If the resources were
+available to queue the signal, the signal will be queued and sent to
+the receiving process.
+.Pp
+If the value of
+.Fa pid
+causes
+.Fa signo
+to be generated for the sending process, and if
+.Fa signo
+is not blocked for the calling thread and if no other thread has
+.Fa signo
+unblocked or is waiting in a
+.Fn sigwait
+system call for
+.Fa signo ,
+either
+.Fa signo
+or at least the pending, unblocked signal will be delivered to the
+calling thread before
+.Fn sigqueue
+returns.
+Should any multiple pending signals in the range
+.Dv SIGRTMIN
+to
+.Dv SIGRTMAX
+be selected for delivery, it is the lowest numbered
+one.
+The selection order between realtime and non-realtime signals, or
+between multiple pending non-realtime signals, is unspecified.
+.Sh RETURN VALUES
+.Rv -std
+.Sh ERRORS
+The
+.Fn sigqueue
+system call
+will fail if:
+.Bl -tag -width Er
+.It Bq Er EAGAIN
+No resources are available to queue the signal.
+The process has already
+queued
+.Brq Dv SIGQUEUE_MAX
+signals that are still pending at the receiver(s),
+or a system-wide resource limit has been exceeded.
+.It Bq Er EINVAL
+The value of the
+.Fa signo
+argument is an invalid or unsupported signal number.
+.It Bq Er EEPERM
+The process does not have the appropriate privilege to send the signal
+to the receiving process.
+.It Bq Er ESRCH
+The process
+.Fa pid
+does not exist.
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr sigaction 2 ,
+.Xr sigpending 2 ,
+.Xr sigqueue 2 ,
+.Xr sigsuspend 2 ,
+.Xr sigtimedwait 2 ,
+.Xr sigwait 2 ,
+.Xr sigwaitinfo 2 ,
+.Xr pause 3 ,
+.Xr pthread_sigmask 3 ,
+.Xr siginfo 3
+.Sh STANDARDS
+The
+.Fn sigqueue
+system call conforms to
+.St -p1003.1-2004
+.Sh HISTORY
+Support for
+.Tn POSIX
+realtime signal queue first appeared in
+.Fx 7.0 .
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