hpux man page for siginterrupt

siginterrupt(2) 						System Calls Manual						   siginterrupt(2)

NAME
       siginterrupt - allow signals to interrupt functions

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       The function is used to change the restart behaviour when a function is interrupted by the specified signal. The function sig, flag) has an
       effect as if implemented as:

RETURN VALUE
       Upon successful completion, returns 0. Otherwise -1 is returned and is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS
       The function will fail if:

	      [EINVAL]		       The sig argument is not a valid signal number.

APPLICATION USAGE
       The function supports programs written to historical system interfaces.	A portable application, when being written  or	rewritten,  should
       use with the flag instead of

   Threads Considerations
       System call restart is a process attribute.  Therefore, changing the restart behavior affects all threads in the process.

SEE ALSO
       sigaction(2), <signal.h>.

CHANGE HISTORY
       First released in Issue 4, Version 2.

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