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signal - cppreference.com

void (*signal( int sig, void (*handler) (int))) (int);

Sets the error handler for signal sig. The signal handler can be set so that default handling will occur, signal is ignored, or a user-defined function is called.

When signal handler is set to a function and a signal occurs, it is implementation defined whether signal(sig, SIG_DFL) will be executed immediately before the start of signal handler. Also, the implementation can prevent some implementation-defined set of signals from occurring while the signal handler runs.

[edit] Parameters sig - the signal to set the signal handler to. It can be an implementation-defined value or one of the following values: handler - the signal handler. This must be one of the following: [edit] Return value

Previous signal handler on success or SIG_ERR on failure (setting a signal handler can be disabled on some implementations).

[edit] Signal handler

The following limitations are imposed on the user-defined function that is installed as a signal handler.

If the user defined function returns when handling SIGFPE, SIGILL or SIGSEGV, the behavior is undefined.

If the signal handler is called as a result of abort or raise, the behavior is undefined if the signal handler calls raise.

If the signal handler is called NOT as a result of abort or raise (in other words, the signal handler is asynchronous), the behavior is undefined if

On entry to the signal handler, the state of the floating-point environment and the values of all objects is unspecified, except for

On return from a signal handler, the value of any object modified by the signal handler that is not volatile sig_atomic_t or lock-free atomic(since C11) is undefined.

The behavior is undefined if signal is used in a multithreaded program. It is not required to be thread-safe.

[edit] Notes

POSIX requires that signal is thread-safe, and specifies a list of async-signal-safe library functions that may be called from any signal handler.

Besides abort and raise, POSIX specifies that kill, pthread_kill, and sigqueue generate synchronous signals.

POSIX recommends sigaction instead of signal, due to its underspecified behavior and significant implementation variations, regarding signal delivery while a signal handler is executed.

[edit] Example
#include <signal.h>
#include <stdio.h>
 
volatile sig_atomic_t gSignalStatus;
 
void signal_handler(int signal)
{
  gSignalStatus = signal;
}
 
int main(void)
{
  signal(SIGINT, signal_handler);
 
  printf("SignalValue: %d\n", gSignalStatus);
  printf("Sending signal: %d\n", SIGINT);
  raise(SIGINT);
  printf("SignalValue: %d\n", gSignalStatus);
}

Output:

SignalValue: 0
Sending signal: 2
SignalValue: 2
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