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40 is a structure type which is used to describe the context of a
41 thread of control within the execution of a process.
44 includes the following members:
45 .Bd -literal -offset indent
49 mcontext_t uc_mcontext
54 member points to the context that will be resumed after the function
55 specified when modifying a context using
60 is a null pointer, then the context is the main context,
61 and the process will exit with an exit status of 0 upon return.
65 member is the set of signals that are blocked when the context is
67 Further information can be found in
72 member defines the stack used by the context.
73 Further information can be found in
78 member defines the machine state associated with the context;
79 it may consist of general registers, floating point registers
80 and other machine-specific information.
81 Its description is beyond the scope of this manual page;
82 portable applications should not access this structure member.
101 functions first appeared in