sigprocmask.2: Note treatment of signals used internally by NPTL

The glibc wrapper silently ignores attempts to block the two
real-time signals used by NPTL.

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@ -143,6 +143,14 @@ See
for details on manipulating signal sets.
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.SS C library/kernel ABI differences
The glibc wrapper function for
.BR sigprocmask ()
silently ignores attempts to block the two real-time signals that
are used internally by the NPTL threading implementation.
See
.BR nptl (7)
for details.
The original Linux system call was named
.BR sigprocmask ().
However, with the addition of real-time signals in Linux 2.2,