Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> --- Changelog: v1: - patch introduced --- man2/procfd_signal.2 | 147 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 147 insertions(+) create mode 100644 man2/procfd_signal.2 diff --git a/man2/procfd_signal.2 b/man2/procfd_signal.2 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..6af0b74f4 --- /dev/null +++ b/man2/procfd_signal.2 @@ -0,0 +1,147 @@ +.\" Copyright (C) 2018 Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> +.\" +.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM) +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" %%%LICENSE_END +.\" +.TH PROCFD_SIGNAL 2 2017-09-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +procfd_signal \- send signal to a process through a process descriptor +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <sys/types.h> +.B #include <signal.h> +.PP +.BI "int procfd_signal(int " fd ", int " sig ", siginfo_t *" info ", int " flags ); +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.BR procfd_signal () +sends the signal specified in +.I sig +to the process identified by the file descriptor +.IR fd . +The permissions required to send a signal are the same as for +.BR kill (2). +As with +.BR kill (2), +the null signal (0) can be used to check if a process with a given +PID exists. +.PP +The optional +.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 must be one of the +.B SI_* +codes in the Linux kernel source file +.IR include/asm-generic/siginfo.h , +with the restriction that the code must be negative +(i.e., cannot be +.BR SI_USER , +which is used by the kernel to indicate a signal sent by +.BR kill (2)) +and cannot (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)). +.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). +.PP +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. +.PP +The +.I flags +argument is reserved for future extension and must be set to 0. +.PP +.SH RETURN VALUE +On success, this system call returns 0. +On error, it returns \-1 and +.I errno +is set to indicate the error. +.SH ERRORS +.TP +.B EBADF +.I fd +is not a valid file descriptor. +.TP +.B EINVAL +An invalid signal was specified. +.TP +.B EINVAL +.I fd +does not refer to a process. +.TP +.B EINVAL +The flags argument was not 0. +.TP +.B EPERM +The caller does not have permission to send the signal to the target. +For the required permissions, see +.BR kill (2). +Or: +.I uinfo->si_code +is invalid. +.TP +.B ESRCH +The process or process group does not exist. +Note that an existing process might be a zombie, +a process that has terminated execution, but +has not yet been +.BR wait (2)ed +for. +.SH CONFORMING TO +This system call is Linux-specific. +.SH SEE ALSO +.BR kill (2), +.BR sigaction (2), +.BR sigprocmask (2), +.BR tgkill (2), +.BR pthread_sigqueue (3), +.BR rt_sigqueueinfo (2), +.BR sigqueue (3), +.BR signal (7) -- 2.19.1