DESCRIPTION
sigwaitinfo() suspends execution of the calling process until one of the signals in set is delivered. (If one of the signals in set is already pending for the calling process, sigwaitinfo() will return immediately with information about that signal.) sigwaitinfo() removes the delivered signal from the calling process’s list of pending signals and returns the signal number as its function result. If the info argument is not NULL, then it returns a structure of type siginfo_t (see sigaction(2)) containing information about the signal.
Signals returned via sigwaitinfo() are delivered in the usual order; see signal(7) for further details.
sigtimedwait() operates in exactly the same way as sigwaitinfo() except that it has an additional argument, timeout, which enables an upper bound to be placed on the time for which the process is suspended. This argument is of the following type:
struct timespec {
long tv_sec; /* seconds */
long tv_nsec; /* nanoseconds */
}
If both fields of this structure are specified as 0, a poll is performed: sigtimedwait() returns immediately, either with information about a signal that was pending for the caller, or with an error if none of the signals in set was pending.
"RETURN VALUE"
On success, both sigwaitinfo() and sigtimedwait() return a signal number (i.e., a value greater than zero). On failure both calls return -1, with errno set to indicate the error.
ERRORS
