.\" Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
.\" %sccs.include.redist.man%
.\" @(#)sigsetmask.2 6.6 (Berkeley) %G%
sigsetmask \- set current signal mask
.B mask = sigmask(signum)
.B "This interface is made obsolete by sigprocmask(2).
sets the current signal mask (those signals
that are blocked from delivery).
Signals are blocked if the
is provided to construct the mask for a given
quietly disallows SIGKILL or SIGSTOP to be blocked.
The previous set of masked signals is returned.
sigprocmask(2), kill(2), sigaction(2), sigsuspend(2),
sigvec(2), sigblock(2), sigsetops(3)