Improve RETURN VALUES section by mentioning SIG_ERR, per lib/15686, and fix
some spacing.
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.\" $NetBSD: signal.3,v 1.16 2002/02/07 07:00:17 ross Exp $
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.\" $NetBSD: signal.3,v 1.17 2002/02/21 11:09:07 wiz Exp $
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.\"
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.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
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.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.Pp
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Signals allow the manipulation of a process from outside its
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domain as well as allowing the process to manipulate itself or
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copies of itself (children). There are two general types of signals:
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copies of itself (children). There are two general types of signals:
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those that cause termination of a process and those that do not.
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Signals which cause termination of a program might result from
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an irrecoverable error or might be the result of a user at a terminal
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signals, the
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.Fn signal
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function allows for a signal to be caught, to be ignored, or to generate
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an interrupt. See
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an interrupt. See
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.Xr signal 7
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for comprehensive list of supported signals.
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.Pp
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should be
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.Dv SIG_IGN .
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This will cause subsequent instances of the signal to be ignored
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and pending instances to be discarded. If
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and pending instances to be discarded. If
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.Dv SIG_IGN
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is not used,
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further occurrences of the signal are
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ignored signals remain ignored.
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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The previous action is returned on a successful call.
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Otherwise, \-1 is returned and the global variable
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Otherwise,
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.Dv SIG_ERR
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is returned and the global variable
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.Va errno
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is set to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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