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PR_GET_PDEATHSIG - get the parent-death signal number of the calling process

NAME  LIBRARY  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  RETURN VALUE  ERRORS  STANDARDS  HISTORY  SEE ALSO 

NAME

PR_GET_PDEATHSIG − get the parent-death signal number of the calling process

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc−lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <linux/prctl.h> /* Definition of PR_* constants */
#include <sys/prctl.h>

int prctl(PR_GET_PDEATHSIG, int *sig);

DESCRIPTION

Return the parent-death signal number of the calling process, in the location pointed to by sig.

RETURN VALUE

On success, 0 is returned. On error, −1 is returned, and errno is set to indicate the error.

ERRORS

EFAULT

sig is an invalid address.

STANDARDS

Linux.

HISTORY

Linux 2.3.15.

SEE ALSO

signal(2), PR_SET_PDEATHSIG(2const)


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