#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <signal.h>
void sigint_handler(int sig) {
write(0, "nice try\n", 10);
}
int main(void) {
struct sigaction sa; // configure sigaction
sa.sa_handler=sigint_handler;
sa.sa_flags=0;
sa.sa_mask=0;
if (sigaction(SIGINT, & sa, NULL) == -1) { // set handler
perror("sigaction");
exit(1);
}
printf("You shall not exit!\n");
while (1) {
sleep(1);
}
}
The above code when compiled with g++ gives the error :
sigaction.c:13:14: error: no match for ‘operator=’ (operand types are ‘__sigset_t’ and
‘int’)
13 | sa.sa_mask=0;
| ^
In file included from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/types/sigset_t.h:4,
from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/select.h:33,
from /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/sys/types.h:179,
from /usr/include/stdlib.h:394,
from /usr/include/c++/9/cstdlib:75,
from /usr/include/c++/9/stdlib.h:36,
from sigaction.c:2:
In the man pages for sigaction its defined as sigset_t sa_mask; I am not sure what this sigset_t is exactly. What could be possible values for it.