bsd man page for psignal

PSIGNAL(3)						     Library Functions Manual							PSIGNAL(3)

NAME
       psignal, sys_siglist - system signal messages

SYNOPSIS
       psignal(sig, s)
       unsigned sig;
       char *s;

       char *sys_siglist[];

DESCRIPTION
       Psignal	produces a short message on the standard error file describing the indicated signal.  First the argument string s is printed, then
       a colon, then the name of the signal and a new-line.  Most usefully, the argument string is the name of the program which incurred the sig-
       nal.  The signal number should be from among those found in <signal.h>.

       To  simplify variant formatting of signal names, the vector of message strings sys_siglist is provided; the signal number can be used as an
       index in this table to get the signal name without the newline.	The define NSIG defined in <signal.h> is the number of	messages  provided
       for in the table; it should be checked because new signals may be added to the system before they are added to the table.

SEE ALSO
       sigvec(2), perror(3)

4.2 Berkeley Distribution					   May 15, 1985 							PSIGNAL(3)