svn commit: r240778 - stable/8/share/man/man3

[Jilles Tjoelker]

Author: jilles
Date: Fri Sep 21 12:38:52 2012
New Revision: 240778
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/240778

Log:
  siginfo(3): Document SI_USER and SI_KERNEL signal codes.
  
  Different from stable/9 and head, do not mention pthread_kill(3), which
  generates a different code (SI_USER) in stable/8.

Modified:
  stable/8/share/man/man3/siginfo.3
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/share/man/man3/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/share/man/man3/siginfo.3
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/share/man/man3/siginfo.3	Fri Sep 21 12:33:25 2012	(r240777)
+++ stable/8/share/man/man3/siginfo.3	Fri Sep 21 12:38:52 2012	(r240778)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd December 8, 2005
+.Dd September 14, 2012
 .Dt SIGINFO 3
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -195,6 +195,8 @@ signal generated by expiration of a time
 signal generated by completion of an asynchronous I/O request
 .It Ta Dv SI_MESGQ Ta
 signal generated by arrival of a message on an empty message queue
+.It Ta Dv SI_KERNEL Ta
+signal generated by miscellaneous parts of the kernel
 .El
 .Pp
 In addition, the following signal-specific information is available:
@@ -235,6 +237,10 @@ or
 Finally, the following code-specific information is available:
 .Bl -column ".Dv SI_QUEUE" ".Va si_overrun"
 .It Sy "Code	Member	Value"
+.It Dv SI_USER Ta Va si_pid Ta
+the process ID that sent the signal
+.It Ta Va si_uid Ta
+real user ID of the process that sent the signal
 .It Dv SI_QUEUE Ta Va si_value Ta
 the value passed to
 .Xr sigqueue 2
@@ -281,6 +287,14 @@ signal is queued when a process changed 
 .Tn POSIX
 Realtime Extensions like aio, timer, and message queue also queue
 signals.
+Signals with code
+.Dv SI_USER
+or
+.Dv SI_KERNEL
+are only queued if there are sufficient resources;
+otherwise,
+.Dv SI_NOINFO
+results.
 For some hardware architectures, the exact value of
 .Va si_addr
 might not be available.
@@ -304,6 +318,12 @@ Full support for
 .Tn POSIX
 signal information first appeared in
 .Fx 7.0 .
+The codes
+.Dv SI_USER
+and
+.Dv SI_KERNEL
+can be generated as of
+.Fx 8.1 .
 .Sh AUTHORS
 This manual page was written by
 .An "David Xu" Aq davidxu at FreeBSD.org .