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SIGPENDING(2)               BSD System Calls Manual              SIGPENDING(2)

NAME
     sigpending -- get pending signals

SYNOPSIS
     #include <signal.h>

     int
     sigpending(sigset_t *set);

DESCRIPTION
     The sigpending function returns a mask of the signals pending for delivery to the calling process in
     the location indicated by set.  Signals may be pending because they are currently masked, or tran-siently transiently
     siently before delivery (although the latter case is not normally detectable).

RETURN VALUES
     A 0 value indicated that the call succeeded.  A -1 return value indicates an error occurred and errno
     is set to indicated the reason.

ERRORS
     The sigpending function does not currently detect any errors.

SEE ALSO
     sigaction(2), sigprocmask(2)

STANDARDS
     The sigpending function is defined by IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (``POSIX.1'').

BSD                            January 12, 1994                            BSD