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.TH rt_sigqueueinfo 2 2024-05-02 "Linux man-pages 6.9.1"
.SH NAME
rt_sigqueueinfo, rt_tgsigqueueinfo \- queue a signal and data
.SH LIBRARY
Standard C library
.RI ( libc ", " \-lc )
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BR "#include <linux/signal.h>" "     /* Definition of " SI_* " constants */"
.BR "#include <sys/syscall.h>" "      /* Definition of " SYS_* " constants */"
.B #include <unistd.h>
.P
.BI "int syscall(SYS_rt_sigqueueinfo, pid_t " tgid ,
.BI "            int " sig ", siginfo_t *" info );
.BI "int syscall(SYS_rt_tgsigqueueinfo, pid_t " tgid ", pid_t " tid ,
.BI "            int " sig ", siginfo_t *" info );
.fi
.P
.IR Note :
There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see NOTES.
.SH DESCRIPTION
The
.BR rt_sigqueueinfo ()
and
.BR rt_tgsigqueueinfo ()
system calls are the low-level interfaces used to send a signal plus data
to a process or thread.
The receiver of the signal can obtain the accompanying data
by establishing a signal handler with the
.BR sigaction (2)
.B SA_SIGINFO
flag.
.P
These system calls are not intended for direct application use;
they are provided to allow the implementation of
.BR sigqueue (3)
and
.BR pthread_sigqueue (3).
.P
The
.BR rt_sigqueueinfo ()
system call sends the signal
.I sig
to the thread group with the ID
.IR tgid .
(The term "thread group" is synonymous with "process", and
.I tid
corresponds to the traditional UNIX process ID.)
The signal will be delivered to an arbitrary member of the thread group
(i.e., one of the threads that is not currently blocking the signal).
.P
The
.I info
argument specifies the data to accompany the signal.
This argument is a pointer to a structure of type
.IR siginfo_t ,
described in
.BR sigaction (2)
(and defined by including
.IR <sigaction.h> ).
The caller should set the following fields in this structure:
.TP
.I si_code
This should be one of the
.B SI_*
codes in the Linux kernel source file
.IR include/asm\-generic/siginfo.h .
If the signal is being sent to any process other than the caller itself,
the following restrictions apply:
.RS
.IP \[bu] 3
The code can't be a value greater than or equal to zero.
In particular, it can't be
.BR SI_USER ,
which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent by
.BR kill (2),
and nor can it be
.BR SI_KERNEL ,
which is used to indicate a signal generated by the kernel.
.IP \[bu]
The code can't (since Linux 2.6.39) be
.BR SI_TKILL ,
which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent using
.\" tkill(2) or
.BR tgkill (2).
.RE
.TP
.I si_pid
This should be set to a process ID,
typically the process ID of the sender.
.TP
.I si_uid
This should be set to a user ID,
typically the real user ID of the sender.
.TP
.I si_value
This field contains the user data to accompany the signal.
For more information, see the description of the last
.RI ( "union sigval" )
argument of
.BR sigqueue (3).
.P
Internally, the kernel sets the
.I si_signo
field to the value specified in
.IR sig ,
so that the receiver of the signal can also obtain
the signal number via that field.
.P
The
.BR rt_tgsigqueueinfo ()
system call is like
.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (),
but sends the signal and data to the single thread
specified by the combination of
.IR tgid ,
a thread group ID,
and
.IR tid ,
a thread in that thread group.
.SH RETURN VALUE
On success, these system calls return 0.
On error, they return \-1 and
.I errno
is set to indicate the error.
.SH ERRORS
.TP
.B EAGAIN
The limit of signals which may be queued has been reached.
(See
.BR signal (7)
for further information.)
.TP
.B EINVAL
.IR sig ,
.IR tgid ,
or
.I tid
was invalid.
.TP
.B EPERM
The caller does not have permission to send the signal to the target.
For the required permissions, see
.BR kill (2).
.TP
.B EPERM
.I tgid
specifies a process other than the caller and
.I info\->si_code
is invalid.
.TP
.B ESRCH
.BR rt_sigqueueinfo ():
No thread group matching
.I tgid
was found.
.P
.BR rt_tgsigqueinfo ():
No thread matching
.I tgid
and
.I tid
was found.
.SH STANDARDS
Linux.
.SH HISTORY
.TP
.BR rt_sigqueueinfo ()
Linux 2.2.
.TP
.BR rt_tgsigqueueinfo ()
Linux 2.6.31.
.SH NOTES
Since these system calls are not intended for application use,
there are no glibc wrapper functions; use
.BR syscall (2)
in the unlikely case that you want to call them directly.
.P
As with
.BR kill (2),
the null signal (0) can be used to check if the specified process
or thread exists.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR kill (2),
.BR pidfd_send_signal (2),
.BR sigaction (2),
.BR sigprocmask (2),
.BR tgkill (2),
.BR pthread_sigqueue (3),
.BR sigqueue (3),
.BR signal (7)