LDP: Update original to LDP v3.79

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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 .\" based on earlier work by faith@cs.unc.edu and
 .\" Mike Battersby <mib@deakin.edu.au>
 .\"
+.\" %%%LICENSE_START(VERBATIM)
 .\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
 .\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
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@@ -21,10 +22,11 @@
 .\"
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 .\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
+.\" %%%LICENSE_END
 .\"
 .\" 2005-09-15, mtk, Created new page by splitting off from sigaction.2
 .\"
-.TH SIGPROCMASK 2 2008-10-17 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.TH SIGPROCMASK 2 2013-04-19 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
 .SH NAME
 sigprocmask \- examine and change blocked signals
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -88,15 +90,26 @@ The use of
 .BR sigprocmask ()
 is unspecified in a multithreaded process; see
 .BR pthread_sigmask (3).
-.SH "RETURN VALUE"
+.SH RETURN VALUE
 .BR sigprocmask ()
 returns 0 on success and \-1 on error.
+In the event of an error,
+.I errno
+is set to indicate the cause.
 .SH ERRORS
+.TP
+.B EFAULT
+the
+.I set
+or
+.I oldset
+argument points outside the process's allocated address space.
+.TP
 .B EINVAL
 The value specified in
 .I how
 was invalid.
-.SH "CONFORMING TO"
+.SH CONFORMING TO
 POSIX.1-2001.
 .SH NOTES
 It is not possible to block
@@ -119,23 +132,32 @@ or
 .B SIGSEGV
 are generated
 while they are blocked, the result is undefined,
-unless the signal was generated by the
+unless the signal was generated by
 .BR kill (2),
-.BR sigqueue (2),
+.BR sigqueue (3),
 or
 .BR raise (3).
 .PP
 See
 .BR sigsetops (3)
 for details on manipulating signal sets.
-.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.SH SEE ALSO
 .BR kill (2),
 .BR pause (2),
 .BR sigaction (2),
 .BR signal (2),
 .BR sigpending (2),
-.BR sigqueue (2),
 .BR sigsuspend (2),
 .BR pthread_sigmask (3),
+.BR sigqueue (3),
 .BR sigsetops (3),
 .BR signal (7)
+.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/.