From 7acce9fb90c2015e2bd6f774904fa8e6e629f84d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Kerrisk Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 06:34:38 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] sigpending.2: explain how thread's pending signal set is defined The pending set is the union of per-thread pending signals and process-wide pending signals. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk --- man2/sigpending.2 | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man2/sigpending.2 b/man2/sigpending.2 index 8371ec0cc..d84ddc2c1 100644 --- a/man2/sigpending.2 +++ b/man2/sigpending.2 @@ -62,6 +62,11 @@ POSIX.1-2001. See .BR sigsetops (3) for details on manipulating signal sets. + +The set of signals that is pending for a thread +is the union of the set of signals that is pending for that thread +and the set of threads that is peding for the process as a whole; see +.BR signal (7). .SH BUGS In versions of glibc up to and including 2.2.1, there is a bug in the wrapper function for