NAME

mr_sigpost - send a signal to a thread

SYNOPSIS

#include <mrendez.h>

int mr_sigpost( pthread_t pthread_id , int signal_num );

Callable from ISR.

DESCRIPTION

The primitive mr_sigpost() is used to send a signal to a thread which is expected to perform a mr_sigrecv() or mr_receive().

signal_num specfies the signal number to send taking values from zero to 31.

RETURN VALUES

mr_sigpost() returns 0 on success and returns an error number if it fails. It doses not set errno.

ERRORS

EBADID

The calling thread has attempted to signal a pthread_id which does not represent a thread in the system.

EINVAL

The calling thread has attempted to use an invalid signal number.

SEE ALSO

mr_receive(), mr_sigrecv()

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