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authorMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-12 12:14:22 +0100
committerMichael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>2020-11-12 12:16:45 +0100
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sigaction.2: Further clarify the effect of the SA_NODEFER flag
Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ on some other implementations, it is not.
.TP
.B SA_NODEFER
Do not prevent the signal from being received from within its own signal
-handler.
+handler (i.e., do not add the signal to the thread's signal mask while the
+handler is executing).
This flag is meaningful only when establishing a signal handler.
.B SA_NOMASK
is an obsolete, nonstandard synonym for this flag.