diff --git a/man7/signal.7 b/man7/signal.7
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@@ -126,6 +126,34 @@ Suspends execution until any signal is caught.
 .BR sigsuspend (2)
 Temporarily changes the signal mask (see below) and suspends
 execution until one of the unmasked signals is caught.
+.SS Synchronously Accepting a Signal
+Rather than asynchronously catching a signal via a signal handler,
+it is possible to synchronously accept the signal, that is,
+to block execution until the signal is delivered,
+at which point the kernel returns information about the
+signal to the caller.
+There are two general ways to do this:
+.IP * 3
+.BR sigwaitinfo (2),
+.BR sigtimedwait (2),
+and
+.BR sigwait (3)
+suspend execution until one of the signals in a specified
+set is delivered.
+Each of these calls returns information about the delivered signal.
+.IP *
+.BR signalfd (2)
+returns a file descriptor that can be used to read information
+about signals that are delivered to the caller.
+Each
+.BR read (2)
+from this file descriptor blocks until one of the signals
+in the set specified in the
+.BR signalfd (2)
+call is delivered to the caller.
+The buffer returned by
+.BR read (2)
+contains a structure describing the signal.
 .SS "Signal Mask and Pending Signals"
 A signal may be
 .IR blocked ,