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.Dd April 21, 2024
.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.
.Pp
As a
.Fx
extension, the value of
.Fa signo
can be or-ed with the following flags:
.Bl -tag -width __SIGQUEUE_TID
.It Dv __SIGQUEUE_TID
The
.Fa pid
parameter is the thread identifier of a thread in the current process,
and the specified signal is queued into the specified thread' queue.
.El
.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 EPERM
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.
.It Bq Er ESRCH
The thread with id
.Fa pid
does not exist in the current process.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr kill 2 ,
.Xr sigaction 2 ,
.Xr sigpending 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 .
.Sh CAVEATS
When using
.Nm
to send signals to a process which might have a different ABI
(for instance, one is 32-bit and the other 64-bit),
the
.Va sival_int
member of
.Fa value
can be delivered reliably, but the
.Va sival_ptr
may be truncated in endian dependent ways and must not be relied on.
Further, many pointer integrity schemes disallow sending pointers to other
processes, and this technique should not be used in programs intended to
be portable.