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 signal - overview of signals

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 Linux supports both POSIX reliable signals (hereinafter "standard
 signals") and POSIX real-time signals.
 Signal dispositions
 Each signal has a current disposition, which determines how the
 process behaves when it is delivered the signal.
 The entries in the "Action" column of the table below specify the
 default disposition for each signal, as follows:
 Term Default action is to terminate the process.
 Ign Default action is to ignore the signal.
 Core Default action is to terminate the process and dump core
 (see core(5)).
 Stop Default action is to stop the process.
 Cont Default action is to continue the process if it is
 currently stopped.
 A process can change the disposition of a signal using
 sigaction(2) or signal(2). (The latter is less portable when
 establishing a signal handler; see signal(2) for details.) Using
 these system calls, a process can elect one of the following
 behaviors to occur on delivery of the signal: perform the default
 action; ignore the signal; or catch the signal with a signal
 handler, a programmer-defined function that is automatically
 invoked when the signal is delivered.
 By default, a signal handler is invoked on the normal process
 stack. It is possible to arrange that the signal handler uses an
 alternate stack; see sigaltstack(2) for a discussion of how to do
 this and when it might be useful.
 The signal disposition is a per-process attribute: in a
 multithreaded application, the disposition of a particular signal
 is the same for all threads.
 A child created via fork(2) inherits a copy of its parent's signal
 dispositions. During an execve(2), the dispositions of handled
 signals are reset to the default; the dispositions of ignored
 signals are left unchanged.
 Sending a signal
 The following system calls and library functions allow the caller
 to send a signal:
 raise(3)
 Sends a signal to the calling thread.
 kill(2)
 Sends a signal to a specified process, to all members of a
 specified process group, or to all processes on the system.
 pidfd_send_signal(2)
 Sends a signal to a process identified by a PID file
 descriptor.
 killpg(3)
 Sends a signal to all of the members of a specified process
 group.
 pthread_kill(3)
 Sends a signal to a specified POSIX thread in the same
 process as the caller.
 tgkill(2)
 Sends a signal to a specified thread within a specific
 process. (This is the system call used to implement
 pthread_kill(3).)
 sigqueue(3)
 Sends a real-time signal with accompanying data to a
 specified process.
 Waiting for a signal to be caught
 The following system calls suspend execution of the calling thread
 until a signal is caught (or an unhandled signal terminates the
 process):
 pause(2)
 Suspends execution until any signal is caught.
 sigsuspend(2)
 Temporarily changes the signal mask (see below) and
 suspends execution until one of the unmasked signals is
 caught.
 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:
 • sigwaitinfo(2), sigtimedwait(2), and 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.
 • signalfd(2) returns a file descriptor that can be used to read
 information about signals that are delivered to the caller.
 Each read(2) from this file descriptor blocks until one of the
 signals in the set specified in the signalfd(2) call is
 delivered to the caller. The buffer returned by read(2)
 contains a structure describing the signal.
 Signal mask and pending signals
 A signal may be blocked, which means that it will not be delivered
 until it is later unblocked. Between the time when it is
 generated and when it is delivered a signal is said to be pending.
 Each thread in a process has an independent signal mask, which
 indicates the set of signals that the thread is currently
 blocking. A thread can manipulate its signal mask using
 pthread_sigmask(3). In a traditional single-threaded application,
 sigprocmask(2) can be used to manipulate the signal mask.
 A child created via fork(2) inherits a copy of its parent's signal
 mask; the signal mask is preserved across execve(2).
 A signal may be process-directed or thread-directed. A process-
 directed signal is one that is targeted at (and thus pending for)
 the process as a whole. A signal may be process-directed because
 it was generated by the kernel for reasons other than a hardware
 exception, or because it was sent using kill(2) or sigqueue(3). A
 thread-directed signal is one that is targeted at a specific
 thread. A signal may be thread-directed because it was generated
 as a consequence of executing a specific machine-language
 instruction that triggered a hardware exception (e.g., SIGSEGV for
 an invalid memory access, or SIGFPE for a math error), or because
 it was targeted at a specific thread using interfaces such as
 tgkill(2) or pthread_kill(3).
 A process-directed signal may be delivered to any one of the
 threads that does not currently have the signal blocked. If more
 than one of the threads has the signal unblocked, then the kernel
 chooses an arbitrary thread to which to deliver the signal.
 A thread can obtain the set of signals that it currently has
 pending using sigpending(2). This set will consist of the union
 of the set of pending process-directed signals and the set of
 signals pending for the calling thread.
 A child created via fork(2) initially has an empty pending signal
 set; the pending signal set is preserved across an execve(2).
 Execution of signal handlers
 Whenever there is a transition from kernel-mode to user-mode
 execution (e.g., on return from a system call or scheduling of a
 thread onto the CPU), the kernel checks whether there is a pending
 unblocked signal for which the process has established a signal
 handler. If there is such a pending signal, the following steps
 occur:
 (1) The kernel performs the necessary preparatory steps for
 execution of the signal handler:
 (1.1) The signal is removed from the set of pending signals.
 (1.2) If the signal handler was installed by a call to
 sigaction(2) that specified the SA_ONSTACK flag and
 the thread has defined an alternate signal stack
 (using sigaltstack(2)), then that stack is installed.
 (1.3) Various pieces of signal-related context are saved
 into a special frame that is created on the stack.
 The saved information includes:
 • the program counter register (i.e., the address of
 the next instruction in the main program that
 should be executed when the signal handler
 returns);
 • architecture-specific register state required for
 resuming the interrupted program;
 • the thread's current signal mask;
 • the thread's alternate signal stack settings.
 If the signal handler was installed using the
 sigaction(2) SA_SIGINFO flag, then the above
 information is accessible via the ucontext_t object
 that is pointed to by the third argument of the signal
 handler. This object reflects the state at which the
 signal is delivered, rather than in the handler; for
 example, the mask of blocked signals stored in this
 object will not contain the mask of new signals
 blocked through sigaction(2).
 (1.4) Any signals specified in act->sa_mask when registering
 the handler with sigaction(2) are added to the
 thread's signal mask. The signal being delivered is
 also added to the signal mask, unless SA_NODEFER was
 specified when registering the handler. These signals
 are thus blocked while the handler executes.
 (2) The kernel constructs a frame for the signal handler on the
 stack. The kernel sets the program counter for the thread to
 point to the first instruction of the signal handler
 function, and configures the return address for that function
 to point to a piece of user-space code known as the signal
 trampoline (described in sigreturn(2)).
 (3) The kernel passes control back to user-space, where execution
 commences at the start of the signal handler function.
 (4) When the signal handler returns, control passes to the signal
 trampoline code.
 (5) The signal trampoline calls sigreturn(2), a system call that
 uses the information in the stack frame created in step 1 to
 restore the thread to its state before the signal handler was
 called. The thread's signal mask and alternate signal stack
 settings are restored as part of this procedure. Upon
 completion of the call to sigreturn(2), the kernel transfers
 control back to user space, and the thread recommences
 execution at the point where it was interrupted by the signal
 handler.
 Note that if the signal handler does not return (e.g., control is
 transferred out of the handler using siglongjmp(3), or the handler
 executes a new program with execve(2)), then the final step is not
 performed. In particular, in such scenarios it is the
 programmer's responsibility to restore the state of the signal
 mask (using sigprocmask(2)), if it is desired to unblock the
 signals that were blocked on entry to the signal handler. (Note
 that siglongjmp(3) may or may not restore the signal mask,
 depending on the savesigs value that was specified in the
 corresponding call to sigsetjmp(3).)
 From the kernel's point of view, execution of the signal handler
 code is exactly the same as the execution of any other user-space
 code. That is to say, the kernel does not record any special
 state information indicating that the thread is currently
 executing inside a signal handler. All necessary state
 information is maintained in user-space registers and the user-
 space stack. The depth to which nested signal handlers may be
 invoked is thus limited only by the user-space stack (and sensible
 software design!).
 Standard signals
 Linux supports the standard signals listed below. The second
 column of the table indicates which standard (if any) specified
 the signal: "P1990" indicates that the signal is described in the
 original POSIX.1-1990 standard; "P2001" indicates that the signal
 was added in SUSv2 and POSIX.1-2001.
 Signal Standard Action Comment
 ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 SIGABRT P1990 Core Abort signal from abort(3)
 SIGALRM P1990 Term Timer signal from alarm(2)
 SIGBUS P2001 Core Bus error (bad memory access)
 SIGCHLD P1990 Ign Child stopped or terminated
 SIGCLD - Ign A synonym for SIGCHLD
 SIGCONT P1990 Cont Continue if stopped
 SIGEMT - Term Emulator trap
 SIGFPE P1990 Core Erroneous arithmetic operation
 SIGHUP P1990 Term Hangup detected on controlling terminal
 or death of controlling process
 SIGILL P1990 Core Illegal Instruction
 SIGINFO - A synonym for SIGPWR
 SIGINT P1990 Term Interrupt from keyboard
 SIGIO - Term I/O now possible (4.2BSD)
 SIGIOT - Core IOT trap. A synonym for SIGABRT
 SIGKILL P1990 Term Kill signal
 SIGLOST - Term File lock lost (unused)
 SIGPIPE P1990 Term Broken pipe: write to pipe with no
 readers; see pipe(7)
 SIGPOLL P2001 Term Pollable event (Sys V);
 synonym for SIGIO
 SIGPROF P2001 Term Profiling timer expired
 SIGPWR - Term Power failure (System V)
 SIGQUIT P1990 Core Quit from keyboard
 SIGSEGV P1990 Core Invalid memory reference
 SIGSTKFLT - Term Stack fault on coprocessor (unused)
 SIGSTOP P1990 Stop Stop process
 SIGTSTP P1990 Stop Stop typed at terminal
 SIGSYS P2001 Core Bad system call (SVr4);
 see also seccomp(2)
 SIGTERM P1990 Term Termination signal
 SIGTRAP P2001 Core Trace/breakpoint trap
 SIGTTIN P1990 Stop Terminal input for background process
 SIGTTOU P1990 Stop Terminal output for background process
 SIGUNUSED - Core Synonymous with SIGSYS
 SIGURG P2001 Ign Urgent condition on socket (4.2BSD)
 SIGUSR1 P1990 Term User-defined signal 1
 SIGUSR2 P1990 Term User-defined signal 2
 SIGVTALRM P2001 Term Virtual alarm clock (4.2BSD)
 SIGXCPU P2001 Core CPU time limit exceeded (4.2BSD);
 see setrlimit(2)
 SIGXFSZ P2001 Core File size limit exceeded (4.2BSD);
 see setrlimit(2)
 SIGWINCH - Ign Window resize signal (4.3BSD, Sun)
 The signals SIGKILL and SIGSTOP cannot be caught, blocked, or
 ignored.
 Up to and including Linux 2.2, the default behavior for SIGSYS,
 SIGXCPU, SIGXFSZ, and (on architectures other than SPARC and MIPS)
 SIGBUS was to terminate the process (without a core dump). (On
 some other UNIX systems the default action for SIGXCPU and SIGXFSZ
 is to terminate the process without a core dump.) Linux 2.4
 conforms to the POSIX.1-2001 requirements for these signals,
 terminating the process with a core dump.
 SIGEMT is not specified in POSIX.1-2001, but nevertheless appears
 on most other UNIX systems, where its default action is typically
 to terminate the process with a core dump.
 SIGPWR (which is not specified in POSIX.1-2001) is typically
 ignored by default on those other UNIX systems where it appears.
 SIGIO (which is not specified in POSIX.1-2001) is ignored by
 default on several other UNIX systems.
 Queueing and delivery semantics for standard signals
 If multiple standard signals are pending for a process, the order
 in which the signals are delivered is unspecified.
 Standard signals do not queue. If multiple instances of a
 standard signal are generated while that signal is blocked, then
 only one instance of the signal is marked as pending (and the
 signal will be delivered just once when it is unblocked). In the
 case where a standard signal is already pending, the siginfo_t
 structure (see sigaction(2)) associated with that signal is not
 overwritten on arrival of subsequent instances of the same signal.
 Thus, the process will receive the information associated with the
 first instance of the signal.
 Signal numbering for standard signals
 The numeric value for each signal is given in the table below. As
 shown in the table, many signals have different numeric values on
 different architectures. The first numeric value in each table
 row shows the signal number on x86, ARM, and most other
 architectures; the second value is for Alpha and SPARC; the third
 is for MIPS; and the last is for PARISC. A dash (-) denotes that
 a signal is absent on the corresponding architecture.
 Signal x86/ARM Alpha/ MIPS PARISC Notes
 most others SPARC
 ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 SIGHUP 1 1 1 1
 SIGINT 2 2 2 2
 SIGQUIT 3 3 3 3
 SIGILL 4 4 4 4
 SIGTRAP 5 5 5 5
 SIGABRT 6 6 6 6
 SIGIOT 6 6 6 6
 SIGBUS 7 10 10 10
 SIGEMT - 7 7 -
 SIGFPE 8 8 8 8
 SIGKILL 9 9 9 9
 SIGUSR1 10 30 16 16
 SIGSEGV 11 11 11 11
 SIGUSR2 12 31 17 17
 SIGPIPE 13 13 13 13
 SIGALRM 14 14 14 14
 SIGTERM 15 15 15 15
 SIGSTKFLT 16 - - 7
 SIGCHLD 17 20 18 18
 SIGCLD - - 18 -
 SIGCONT 18 19 25 26
 SIGSTOP 19 17 23 24
 SIGTSTP 20 18 24 25
 SIGTTIN 21 21 26 27
 SIGTTOU 22 22 27 28
 SIGURG 23 16 21 29
 SIGXCPU 24 24 30 12
 SIGXFSZ 25 25 31 30
 SIGVTALRM 26 26 28 20
 SIGPROF 27 27 29 21
 SIGWINCH 28 28 20 23
 SIGIO 29 23 22 22
 SIGPOLL Same as SIGIO
 SIGPWR 30 29/- 19 19
 SIGINFO - 29/- - -
 SIGLOST - -/29 - -
 SIGSYS 31 12 12 31
 SIGUNUSED 31 - - 31
 Note the following:
 • Where defined, SIGUNUSED is synonymous with SIGSYS. Since
 glibc 2.26, SIGUNUSED is no longer defined on any architecture.
 • Signal 29 is SIGINFO/SIGPWR (synonyms for the same value) on
 Alpha but SIGLOST on SPARC.
 Real-time signals
 Starting with Linux 2.2, Linux supports real-time signals as
 originally defined in the POSIX.1b real-time extensions (and now
 included in POSIX.1-2001). The range of supported real-time
 signals is defined by the macros SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX.
 POSIX.1-2001 requires that an implementation support at least
 _POSIX_RTSIG_MAX (8) real-time signals.
 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 pthreads(7)), and adjusts the
 value of SIGRTMIN suitably (to 34 or 35). Because the range of
 available real-time signals varies according to the glibc
 threading implementation (and this variation can occur at run time
 according to the available kernel and glibc), and indeed the range
 of real-time signals varies across UNIX systems, programs should
 never refer to real-time signals using hard-coded numbers, but
 instead should always refer to real-time signals using the
 notation SIGRTMIN+n, and include suitable (run-time) checks that
 SIGRTMIN+n does not exceed SIGRTMAX.
 Unlike standard signals, real-time signals have no predefined
 meanings: the entire set of real-time signals can be used for
 application-defined purposes.
 The default action for an unhandled real-time signal is to
 terminate the receiving process.
 Real-time signals are distinguished by the following:
 • Multiple instances of real-time signals can be queued. By
 contrast, if multiple instances of a standard signal are
 delivered while that signal is currently blocked, then only one
 instance is queued.
 • If the signal is sent using sigqueue(3), an accompanying value
 (either an integer or a pointer) can be sent with the signal.
 If the receiving process establishes a handler for this signal
 using the SA_SIGINFO flag to sigaction(2), then it can obtain
 this data via the si_value field of the siginfo_t structure
 passed as the second argument to the handler. Furthermore, the
 si_pid and si_uid fields of this structure can be used to
 obtain the PID and real user ID of the process sending the
 signal.
 • Real-time signals are delivered in a guaranteed order.
 Multiple real-time signals of the same type are delivered in
 the order they were sent. If different real-time signals are
 sent to a process, they are delivered starting with the lowest-
 numbered signal. (I.e., low-numbered signals have highest
 priority.) By contrast, if multiple standard signals are
 pending for a process, the order in which they are delivered is
 unspecified.
 If both standard and real-time signals are pending for a process,
 POSIX leaves it unspecified which is delivered first. Linux, like
 many other implementations, gives priority to standard signals in
 this case.
 According to POSIX, an implementation should permit at least
 _POSIX_SIGQUEUE_MAX (32) real-time signals to be queued to a
 process. However, Linux does things differently. Up to and
 including Linux 2.6.7, Linux imposes a system-wide limit on the
 number of queued real-time signals for all processes. This limit
 can be viewed and (with privilege) changed via the
 /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-max file. A related file,
 /proc/sys/kernel/rtsig-nr, can be used to find out how many real-
 time signals are currently queued. In Linux 2.6.8, these /proc
 interfaces were replaced by the RLIMIT_SIGPENDING resource limit,
 which specifies a per-user limit for queued signals; see
 setrlimit(2) for further details.
 The addition of real-time signals required the widening of the
 signal set structure (sigset_t) from 32 to 64 bits. Consequently,
 various system calls were superseded by new system calls that
 supported the larger signal sets. The old and new system calls
 are as follows:
 Linux 2.0 and earlier Linux 2.2 and later
 sigaction(2) rt_sigaction(2)
 sigpending(2) rt_sigpending(2)
 sigprocmask(2) rt_sigprocmask(2)
 sigreturn(2) rt_sigreturn(2)
 sigsuspend(2) rt_sigsuspend(2)
 sigtimedwait(2) rt_sigtimedwait(2)
 Interruption of system calls and library functions by signal handlers
 If a signal handler is invoked while a system call or library
 function call is blocked, then either:
 • the call is automatically restarted after the signal handler
 returns; or
 • the call fails with the error EINTR.
 Which of these two behaviors occurs depends on the interface and
 whether or not the signal handler was established using the
 SA_RESTART flag (see sigaction(2)). The details vary across UNIX
 systems; below, the details for Linux.
 If a blocked call to one of the following interfaces is
 interrupted by a signal handler, then the call is automatically
 restarted after the signal handler returns if the SA_RESTART flag
 was used; otherwise the call fails with the error EINTR:
 • read(2), readv(2), write(2), writev(2), and ioctl(2) calls on
 "slow" devices. A "slow" device is one where the I/O call may
 block for an indefinite time, for example, a terminal, pipe, or
 socket. If an I/O call on a slow device has already
 transferred some data by the time it is interrupted by a signal
 handler, then the call will return a success status (normally,
 the number of bytes transferred). Note that a (local) disk is
 not a slow device according to this definition; I/O operations
 on disk devices are not interrupted by signals.
 • open(2), if it can block (e.g., when opening a FIFO; see
 fifo(7)).
 • wait(2), wait3(2), wait4(2), waitid(2), and waitpid(2).
 • Socket interfaces: accept(2), connect(2), recv(2), recvfrom(2),
 recvmmsg(2), recvmsg(2), send(2), sendto(2), and sendmsg(2),
 unless a timeout has been set on the socket (see below).
 • File locking interfaces: flock(2) and the F_SETLKW and
 F_OFD_SETLKW operations of fcntl(2)
 • POSIX message queue interfaces: mq_receive(3),
 mq_timedreceive(3), mq_send(3), and mq_timedsend(3).
 • futex(2) FUTEX_WAIT (since Linux 2.6.22; beforehand, always
 failed with EINTR).
 • getrandom(2).
 • futex(2) FUTEX_WAIT_BITSET.
 • POSIX semaphore interfaces: sem_wait(3) and sem_timedwait(3)
 (since Linux 2.6.22; beforehand, always failed with EINTR).
 • read(2) from an inotify(7) file descriptor (since Linux 3.8;
 beforehand, always failed with EINTR).
 The following interfaces are never restarted after being
 interrupted by a signal handler, regardless of the use of
 SA_RESTART; they always fail with the error EINTR when interrupted
 by a signal handler:
 • "Input" socket interfaces, when a timeout (SO_RCVTIMEO) has
 been set on the socket using setsockopt(2): accept(2), recv(2),
 recvfrom(2), recvmmsg(2) (also with a non-NULL timeout
 argument), and recvmsg(2).
 • "Output" socket interfaces, when a timeout (SO_RCVTIMEO) has
 been set on the socket using setsockopt(2): connect(2),
 send(2), sendto(2), and sendmsg(2).
 • Interfaces used to wait for signals: pause(2), sigsuspend(2),
 sigtimedwait(2), and sigwaitinfo(2).
 • File descriptor multiplexing interfaces: epoll_wait(2),
 epoll_pwait(2), poll(2), ppoll(2), select(2), and pselect(2).
 • System V IPC interfaces: msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2), semop(2), and
 semtimedop(2).
 • Sleep interfaces: clock_nanosleep(2), nanosleep(2), and
 usleep(3).
 • io_getevents(2).
 The sleep(3) function is also never restarted if interrupted by a
 handler, but gives a success return: the number of seconds
 remaining to sleep.
 In certain circumstances, the seccomp(2) user-space notification
 feature can lead to restarting of system calls that would
 otherwise never be restarted by SA_RESTART; for details, see
 seccomp_unotify(2).
 Interruption of system calls and library functions by stop signals
 On Linux, even in the absence of signal handlers, certain blocking
 interfaces can fail with the error EINTR after the process is
 stopped by one of the stop signals and then resumed via SIGCONT.
 This behavior is not sanctioned by POSIX.1, and doesn't occur on
 other systems.
 The Linux interfaces that display this behavior are:
 • "Input" socket interfaces, when a timeout (SO_RCVTIMEO) has
 been set on the socket using setsockopt(2): accept(2), recv(2),
 recvfrom(2), recvmmsg(2) (also with a non-NULL timeout
 argument), and recvmsg(2).
 • "Output" socket interfaces, when a timeout (SO_RCVTIMEO) has
 been set on the socket using setsockopt(2): connect(2),
 send(2), sendto(2), and sendmsg(2), if a send timeout
 (SO_SNDTIMEO) has been set.
 • epoll_wait(2), epoll_pwait(2).
 • semop(2), semtimedop(2).
 • sigtimedwait(2), sigwaitinfo(2).
 • Linux 3.7 and earlier: read(2) from an inotify(7) file
 descriptor
 • Linux 2.6.21 and earlier: futex(2) FUTEX_WAIT,
 sem_timedwait(3), sem_wait(3).
 • Linux 2.6.8 and earlier: msgrcv(2), msgsnd(2).
 • Linux 2.4 and earlier: nanosleep(2).

STANDARDS top

 POSIX.1, except as noted.

NOTES top

 For a discussion of async-signal-safe functions, see
 signal-safety(7).
 The /proc/pid/task/tid/status file contains various fields that
 show the signals that a thread is blocking (SigBlk), catching
 (SigCgt), or ignoring (SigIgn). (The set of signals that are
 caught or ignored will be the same across all threads in a
 process.) Other fields show the set of pending signals that are
 directed to the thread (SigPnd) as well as the set of pending
 signals that are directed to the process as a whole (ShdPnd). The
 corresponding fields in /proc/pid/status show the information for
 the main thread. See proc(5) for further details.

BUGS top

 There are six signals that can be delivered as a consequence of a
 hardware exception: SIGBUS, SIGEMT, SIGFPE, SIGILL, SIGSEGV, and
 SIGTRAP. Which of these signals is delivered, for any given
 hardware exception, is not documented and does not always make
 sense.
 For example, an invalid memory access that causes delivery of
 SIGSEGV on one CPU architecture may cause delivery of SIGBUS on
 another architecture, or vice versa.
 For another example, using the x86 int instruction with a
 forbidden argument (any number other than 3 or 128) causes
 delivery of SIGSEGV, even though SIGILL would make more sense,
 because of how the CPU reports the forbidden operation to the
 kernel.

SEE ALSO top

 kill(1), clone(2), getrlimit(2), kill(2), pidfd_send_signal(2),
 restart_syscall(2), rt_sigqueueinfo(2), setitimer(2),
 setrlimit(2), sgetmask(2), sigaction(2), sigaltstack(2),
 signal(2), signalfd(2), sigpending(2), sigprocmask(2),
 sigreturn(2), sigsuspend(2), sigwaitinfo(2), abort(3),
 bsd_signal(3), killpg(3), longjmp(3), pthread_sigqueue(3),
 raise(3), sigqueue(3), sigset(3), sigsetops(3), sigvec(3),
 sigwait(3), strsignal(3), swapcontext(3), sysv_signal(3), core(5),
 proc(5), nptl(7), pthreads(7), sigevent(3type)

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