https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6970224/providing-passing-argument-to-signal-handler
This is a really old question but I think I can show you a nice trick that would have answered your problem. No need to use sigqueue or whatever.
I also dislike the use of globals variables so I had to find a clever way, in my case, to send a void ptr (which you can later cast to whatever suits your need).
Actually you can do this :
signal(SIGWHATEVER, (void (*)(int))sighandler); // Yes it works ! Even with -Wall -Wextra -Werror using gcc
Then your sighandler would look like this :
int sighandler(const int signal, void *ptr) // Actually void can be replaced with anything you want , MAGIC !
You might ask : How to get the *ptr then ?
Here's how : At initialization
signal(SIGWHATEVER, (void (*)(int))sighandler)
sighandler(FAKE_SIGNAL, your_ptr);
In your sighandler func :
int sighandler(const int signal, void *ptr)
{
static my_struct saved = NULL;
if (saved == NULL)
saved = ptr;
if (signal == SIGNALWHATEVER)
// DO YOUR STUFF OR FREE YOUR PTR
return (0);
}