NAME

system_data_types - overview of system data types

DESCRIPTION

siginfo_t

typedef struct {
    int      si_signo;  /* Signal number */
    int      si_code;   /* Signal code */
    pid_t    si_pid;    /* Sending process ID */
    uid_t    si_uid;    /* Real user ID of sending process */
    void    *si_addr;   /* Memory location which caused fault */
    int      si_status; /* Exit value or signal */
    union sigval si_value;  /* Signal value */
} siginfo_t;

sigset_t

NOTES

The structures described in this manual page shall contain, at least, the members shown in their definition, in no particular order.

Most of the integer types described in this page don't have a corresponding length modifier for the printf(3) and the scanf(3) families of functions. To print a value of an integer type that doesn't have a length modifier, it should be converted to intmax_t or uintmax_t by an explicit cast. To scan into a variable of an integer type that doesn't have a length modifier, an intermediate temporary variable of type intmax_t or uintmax_t should be used. When copying from the temporary variable to the destination variable, the value could overflow. If the type has upper and lower limits, the user should check that the value is within those limits, before actually copying the value. The example below shows how these conversions should be done.

EXAMPLES

The program shown below scans from a string and prints a value stored in a variable of an integer type that doesn't have a length modifier. The appropriate conversions from and to intmax_t, and the appropriate range checks, are used as explained in the notes section above.

#include <stdint.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
int
main (void)
{
    static const char *const str = "500000 us in half a second";
    suseconds_t us;
    intmax_t    tmp;
    /* Scan the number from the string into the temporary variable. */
    sscanf(str, "%jd", &tmp);
    /* Check that the value is within the valid range of suseconds_t. */
    if (tmp < -1 || tmp > 1000000) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Scanned value outside valid range!\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    /* Copy the value to the suseconds_t variable 'us'. */
    us = tmp;
    /* Even though suseconds_t can hold the value -1, this isn't
       a sensible number of microseconds. */
    if (us < 0) {
        fprintf(stderr, "Scanned value shouldn't be negative!\n");
        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
    }
    /* Print the value. */
    printf("There are %jd microseconds in half a second.\n",
            (intmax_t) us);
    exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}

SEE ALSO

feature_test_macros(7), standards(7)