PSIGNAL(3)                                          Linux Programmer's Manual                                         PSIGNAL(3)



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
       POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO
       perror(3), strsignal(3)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



GNU                                                        2008-08-21                                                 PSIGNAL(3)