sigprocmask.2: explain effects of fork() and execve() for signal mask

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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Michael Kerrisk 2008-10-04 06:30:10 +02:00
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@ -101,7 +101,13 @@ POSIX.1-2001.
It is not possible to block
.BR SIGKILL " or " SIGSTOP .
Attempts to do so are silently ignored.
.PP
A child created via
.BR fork (2)
inherits a copy of its parent's signal mask;
the signal mask is preserved across
.BR execve (2).
If
.BR SIGBUS ,
.BR SIGFPE ,