NAME

psignal - print signal message

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>

void psignal(int sig, const char *s);

extern const char *const sys_siglist[];

Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

psignal(): _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE
sys_siglist: _BSD_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

The psignal() function displays a message on stderr consisting of the string s, a colon, a space, and a string describing the signal number sig. If sig is invalid, the message displayed will indicate an unknown signal.

The array sys_siglist holds the signal description strings indexed by signal number.

RETURN VALUE

The psignal() function returns no value.

CONFORMING TO

4.3BSD

SEE ALSO

perror(3), strsignal(3)

COLOPHON

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