Signed-off-by: Ahelenia Ziemiańska <nabijaczleweli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- man/man2/sigaction.2 | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/man/man2/sigaction.2 b/man/man2/sigaction.2 index ce5ad75..168c15c 100644 --- a/man/man2/sigaction.2 +++ b/man/man2/sigaction.2 @@ -645,7 +645,9 @@ .SS The si_code field .BR sigqueue (3). .TP .B SI_TIMER -POSIX timer expired. +POSIX or +.BR setitimer (2)/ alarm (2) +timer expired. .TP .BR SI_MESGQ " (since Linux 2.6.6)" POSIX message queue state changed; see @@ -1099,6 +1101,13 @@ .SH NOTES .BR signal\-safety (7) for a list of the async-signal-safe functions that can be safely called inside from inside a signal handler. +.P +POSIX only guarantees +.B SI_TIMER +for signals created by +.IR timer_create (2). +Implementations are free to also provide it for other types of timers. +The Linux behaviour matches NetBSD. .\" .SS Undocumented Before the introduction of -- 2.39.2
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