From 361ec6881dd88441ae2f49e58e46e162548fafb0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 08:20:43 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] poll.2: Describe fifth argument (sigsetsize) of raw ppoll() system call Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/poll.2 | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/poll.2 b/man2/poll.2 index 57f6d13a9..a711bde98 100644 --- a/man2/poll.2 +++ b/man2/poll.2 @@ -374,6 +374,19 @@ Thus, the glibc function does not modify its .I timeout_ts argument. + +The raw +.BR ppoll () +system call has a fifth argument, +.IR "size_t sigsetsize" , +which specifies the size in bytes of the +.IR sigmask +argument. +The glibc +.BR ppoll () +wrapper function specifies this argument as a fixed value +(equal to +.IR sizeof(sigset_t) ). .SH BUGS See the discussion of spurious readiness notifications under the BUGS section of