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 .\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
 .\" preserved on all copies.
@@ -19,6 +20,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" References consulted:
 .\"     Linux libc source code
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@
 .\"     386BSD man pages
 .\" Modified Sun Jul 25 10:40:51 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
 .\" Modified Sun Apr 14 16:20:34 1996 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
-.TH SIGINTERRUPT 3 2011-09-09 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SIGINTERRUPT 3 2014-06-13 "" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 siginterrupt \- allow signals to interrupt system calls
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -68,16 +70,27 @@ and \fIerrno\fP will be set to
 If the \fIflag\fP argument is true (1) and data transfer has started,
 then the system call will be interrupted and will return the actual
 amount of data transferred.
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 The
 .BR siginterrupt ()
-function returns 0 on success, or \-1 if the
-signal number \fIsig\fP is invalid.
+function returns 0 on success.
+It returns \-1 if the
+signal number
+.I sig
+is invalid, with
+.I errno
+set to indicate the cause of the error.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B EINVAL
 The specified signal number is invalid.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH ATTRIBUTES
+.SS Multithreading (see pthreads(7))
+The
+.BR siginterrupt ()
+function uses a global variable that is not protected,
+so it is not thread-safe.
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 4.3BSD, POSIX.1-2001.
 POSIX.1-2008 marks
 .BR siginterrupt ()
@@ -86,5 +99,14 @@ as obsolete, recommending the use of
 with the
 .B SA_RESTART
 flag instead.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR signal (2)
+.SH COLOPHON
+This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux
+.I man-pages
+project.
+A description of the project,
+information about reporting bugs,
+and the latest version of this page,
+can be found at
+\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.