9.74 sigaction ¶

int sigaction(int sig, struct sigaction *act, struct sigaction *oldact);

This syscall fetches and/or changes the associated actions with the signal sig.

If not NULL, act can be used for setting a new action, if not NULL, oldact can be used for getting the existing action.

It returns 0 on success or -1 on failure, with the following errno:

EINVAL

sig is not valid.

EFAULT

A non-NULL pointer points to not valid memory.

EPERM

The caller does not have the appropiate permissions over pid to actually kill.