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The .Fa sig argument specifies the signal, which may be any signal except .Dv SIGKILL and .Dv SIGSTOP . The .Fa disp argument specifies the signal's disposition, which may be .Dv SIG_DFL , .Dv SIG_IGN , or the address of a signal handler. If .Fn sigset is used, and .Fa disp is the address of a signal handler, the system adds .Fa sig to the signal mask of the calling process before executing the signal handler; when the signal handler returns, the system restores the signal mask of the calling process to its state prior to the delivery of the signal. In addition, if .Fn sigset is used, and .Fa disp is equal to .Dv SIG_HOLD , .Fa sig is added to the signal mask of the calling process and .Fa sig 's disposition remains unchanged. If .Fn sigset is used, and .Fa disp is not equal to .Dv SIG_HOLD , .Fa sig is removed from the signal mask of the calling process. .Pp The .Fn sighold function adds .Fa sig to the signal mask of the calling process. .Pp The .Fn sigrelse function removes .Fa sig from the signal mask of the calling process. .Pp The .Fn sigignore function sets the disposition of .Fa sig to .Dv SIG_IGN . .Pp The .Fn xsi_sigpause function removes .Fa sig from the signal mask of the calling process and suspend the calling process until a signal is received. The .Fn xsi_sigpause function restores the signal mask of the process to its original state before returning. .Pp The .Fn sigpause function assigns .Fa sigmask to the set of masked signals and then waits for a signal to arrive; on return the set of masked signals is restored. The .Fa sigmask argument is usually 0 to indicate that no signals are to be blocked. .Sh RETURN VALUES The .Fn sigpause and .Fn xsi_sigpause functions always terminate by being interrupted, returning -1 with .Va errno set to .Er EINTR . .Pp Upon successful completion, .Fn sigset returns .Dv SIG_HOLD if the signal had been blocked and the signal's previous disposition if it had not been blocked. Otherwise, .Dv SIG_ERR is returned and .Va errno set to indicate the error. .Pp For all other functions, upon successful completion, 0 is returned. Otherwise, -1 is returned and .Va errno is set to indicate the error: .Bl -tag -width Er .It Bq Er EINVAL The .Fa sig argument is not a valid signal number. .It Bq Er EINVAL For .Fn sigset and .Fn sigignore functions, an attempt was made to catch or ignore .Dv SIGKILL or .Dv SIGSTOP . .El .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr kill 2 , .Xr sigaction 2 , .Xr sigblock 2 , .Xr sigprocmask 2 , .Xr sigsuspend 2 , .Xr sigvec 2 .Sh STANDARDS The .Fn sigpause function is implemented for compatibility with historic .Bx 4.3 applications. An incompatible interface by the same name, which used a single signal number rather than a mask, was present in .At V , and was copied from there into the .Sy X/Open System Interfaces .Pq Tn XSI option of .St -p1003.1-2001 . .Fx implements it under the name .Fn xsi_sigpause . The .Fn sighold , .Fn sigignore , .Fn sigrelse and .Fn sigset functions are implemented for compatibility with .Sy System V and .Sy XSI interfaces. .Sh HISTORY The .Fn sigpause function appeared in .Bx 4.2 and has been deprecated. All other functions appeared in .Fx 8.1 and were deprecated before being implemented.