From 373ed9ba91cbd6023d281e0d22f9fe8a4dd05941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 21:10:31 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] signal.7: Correct the range of realtime signals Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man7/signal.7 | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7 index e913e6019..ce52f88fb 100644 --- a/man7/signal.7 +++ b/man7/signal.7 @@ -355,8 +355,8 @@ POSIX.1-2001 requires that an implementation support at least .B _POSIX_RTSIG_MAX (8) real-time signals. .PP -The Linux kernel supports a range of 32 different real-time -signals, numbered 33 to 64. +The Linux kernel supports a range of 33 different real-time +signals, numbered 32 to 64. However, the glibc POSIX threads implementation internally uses two (for NPTL) or three (for LinuxThreads) real-time signals (see