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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 3.27 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)
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