diff -u man7/signal.7-o man7/signal.7 --- man7/signal.7-o 2009-10-03 21:36:45.000000000 +0200 +++ man7/signal.7 2009-10-03 23:28:52.000000000 +0200 @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ .\" Added section on system call restarting (SA_RESTART) .\" Added section on stop/cont signals interrupting syscalls. .\" 2008-10-05, mtk: various additions +.\" 2009-10-03, Andi Kleen: add reference to implicit siginfo_t .\" .TH SIGNAL 7 2008-10-15 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME @@ -328,6 +329,30 @@ .B SIGIO (which is not specified in POSIX.1-2001) is ignored by default on several other Unix systems. + +Some of these signals, carry special additional information in a siginfo_t argument, +clarifying why they were sent. +.TS +l l +_____ +lB l. +Signal siginfo_t fields +SIGKILL si_pid, si_uid +SIGCHLD si_pid, si_uid, si_status, si_utime, si_stime +SIGILL si_code, si_addr, si_trapno +SIGFPE si_code, si_addr, si_trapno +SIGSEGV si_code, si_addr, si_trapno +SIGBUS si_code, si_addr, si_trapno, si_addr_lsb +SIGTRAP si_code, si_addr, si_trapno +SIGPOLL si_band, si_fd +realtime signals > 32 si_pid, si_uid, si_value +posix timer si_tid, si_overrun, si_sigval +.TE + +Please see the +.I sigaction(2) +manpage for more details on the various fields + .SS "Real-time Signals" Linux supports real-time signals as originally defined in the POSIX.1b real-time extensions (and now included in POSIX.1-2001). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
