1/* Handle real-time signal allocation. Generic version.
2 Copyright (C) 1997-2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
4
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
9
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
14
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
17 <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
18
19#include <signal.h>
20#include <internal-signals.h>
21
22/* In these variables we keep track of the used variables. If the
23 platform does not support any real-time signals we will define the
24 values to some unreasonable value which will signal failing of all
25 the functions below. */
26#ifdef __SIGRTMIN
27static int current_rtmin = __SIGRTMIN + RESERVED_SIGRT;
28static int current_rtmax = __SIGRTMAX;
29#endif
30
31/* Return number of available real-time signal with highest priority. */
32int
33__libc_current_sigrtmin (void)
34{
35#ifdef __SIGRTMIN
36 return current_rtmin;
37#else
38 return -1;
39#endif
40}
41libc_hidden_def (__libc_current_sigrtmin)
42
43/* Return number of available real-time signal with lowest priority. */
44int
45__libc_current_sigrtmax (void)
46{
47#ifdef __SIGRTMIN
48 return current_rtmax;
49#else
50 return -1;
51#endif
52}
53libc_hidden_def (__libc_current_sigrtmax)
54
55/* Allocate real-time signal with highest/lowest available
56 priority. Please note that we don't use a lock since we assume
57 this function to be called at program start. */
58int
59__libc_allocate_rtsig (int high)
60{
61#ifndef __SIGRTMIN
62 return -1;
63#else
64 if (current_rtmin == -1 || current_rtmin > current_rtmax)
65 /* We don't have any more signals available. */
66 return -1;
67
68 return high ? current_rtmin++ : current_rtmax--;
69#endif
70}
71

source code of glibc/signal/allocrtsig.c