bsdproc(3C)

DESCRIPTION

These calls simulate (and are provided for backward compatibility with) functions of the same name in the 4.2 Berkeley Software Distribution.

This version of setpgrp() is equivalent to the system call setpgid(pid, pgrp) (see setpgid(2)).

This version of getpgrp() is equivalent to the system call getpgrp2(pid) (see getpid(2)).

killpg() is equivalent to the system call kill(-pgrp, sig) (see kill(2)).

The function sigvec() is no longer supported. Please see the manpage for sigaction(2).

This version of signal() has the same effect as sigvec(sig, vec, ovec) , where vec->sv_handler is equal to func, vec->sv_mask is equal to 0, and vec->sv_flags is equal to 0. signal() returns the value that would be stored in ovec->sv_handler if the equivalent sigvec() call would have succeeded. Otherwise, signal() returns -1 and errno is set to indicate the reason as it would have been set by the equivalent call to sigvec().

For applications that use BSD signal, it is recommended that they use sigaction(2). The system supports an alternative with similar behavior to Berkeley Software Distribution, and the API is bsd_signal but its use is not recommended.

WARNINGS

While the 4.3 BSD release defined extensions to some of the interfaces described here, only the 4.2 BSD interfaces are emulated by this package.

bsdproc() should not be used in conjunction with the facilities described under sigset(3C).

APPLICATION USAGE

AUTHOR

bsdproc() was developed by HP and the University of California, Berkeley.

SEE ALSO

ld(1), kill(2), getpid(2), msgop(2), msgsnd(2), msgrcv(2), read(2), semop(2), setpgid(2), setsid(2), wait(2), write(2), sigaction(2) sigset(3C), sigstack(2), bsd_signal(3C), signal(5).