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1 /** @file
2
3 Implementation and Platform specific portion of <signal.h>.
4
5 Copyright (c) 2010 - 2011, Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.<BR>
6 This program and the accompanying materials are licensed and made available under
7 the terms and conditions of the BSD License that accompanies this distribution.
8 The full text of the license may be found at
9 http://opensource.org/licenses/bsd-license.
10
11 THE PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED UNDER THE BSD LICENSE ON AN "AS IS" BASIS,
12 WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR REPRESENTATIONS OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED.
13 **/
14 #ifndef _SYS_SIGNAL_H
15 #define _SYS_SIGNAL_H
16 #include <sys/EfiCdefs.h>
17 #include <machine/signal.h>
18
19 /** The actual (default) signal numbers are assigned using an anonymous enum
20 so that the compiler can do the work of assigning values. This helps
21 ensure that the developer should never have to renumber the signals or
22 figure out what number to assign to a new signal.
23
24 Properly constructed programs will NEVER depend upon signal numbers being
25 in a particular order or having a particular value. All that is guaranteed
26 is that each signal number is distinct, positive, and non-zero.
27 **/
28 enum {
29 __SigInt = 1,
30 __SigIll,
31 __SigAbrt,
32 __SigFpe,
33 __SigSegv,
34 __SigTerm,
35 __SigBreak,
36 __SigAlrm,
37 __SigVtAlrm,
38 __SigProf,
39 __SigUsr1,
40 __SigUsr2,
41 __SigWinch,
42 __SigPipe,
43 __SigQuit,
44 __Sig_Last
45 };
46
47 /** The type of a signal handler function. **/
48 typedef void __sighandler_t(int);
49
50 __BEGIN_DECLS
51 /** The signal function associates a "signal handler" with a signal number.
52
53 For historical reasons; programs expect signal to be declared
54 in <sys/signal.h>.
55
56 @param[in] sig Signal number that function is to be associated with.
57 @param[in] function The "handler" function to be associated with signal sig.
58
59 @return If the request can be honored, the signal function returns the
60 value of func for the most recent successful call to signal for
61 the specified signal sig. Otherwise, a value of SIG_ERR is
62 returned and a positive value is stored in errno.
63 */
64 __sighandler_t *signal(int sig, __sighandler_t *func);
65
66 __END_DECLS
67
68 #endif /* _SYS_SIGNAL_H */