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Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()?

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From Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Newsgroups comp.programming.threads, comp.unix.programmer
Subject Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()?
Date Thu, 21 Nov 2013 18:38:24 +0100
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> The author is somewhat confused here: sigwait returns "pending signals",
> this means "signals which don't cause any 'action' because they're
> blocked", hence, no "default actions" will happen.

Thanks for your feedback.

I have just found that the section "12.8 Threads and Signals" of the book
"Advanced Programming in the UNIX® Environment" contains also a bit of
information for the requested issue. The corresponding handling might be
implementation-defined. Is any more clarification for such details possible?

Regards,
Markus

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Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()? Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2013-11-21 17:50 +0100
  Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2013-11-21 17:02 +0000
    Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()? Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mobileactivedefense.com> - 2013-11-21 17:32 +0000
    Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()? Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de> - 2013-11-21 18:38 +0100
  Re: Combination of sigwait() with sigaction()? "Chris M. Thomasson" <no@spam.invalid> - 2013-11-21 14:52 -0800

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