hpux man page for gsignal

ssignal(3C)															       ssignal(3C)

NAME
       ssignal(), gsignal() - software signals

SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
       and  implement  a  software facility similar to signal(5).  This facility is used by the Standard C Library to enable users to indicate the
       disposition of error conditions, and is also made available to users for their own purposes.

       Software signals made available to users are associated with integers in the inclusive range 1 through 15.  A call to associates  a  proce-
       dure,  action,  with  the software signal sig; the software signal, sig, is raised by a call to Raising a software signal causes the action
       established for that signal to be taken.

       The first argument to is a number identifying the type of signal for which an action is to be established.  The second argument defines the
       action;	it  is	either	the  name of a (user-defined) action function or one of the manifest constants (default) or (ignore).  returns the
       action previously established for that signal type; if no action has been established or the signal number is illegal, returns

       raises the signal identified by its argument, sig:

	      o  If an action function has been established for sig, that action is reset to and the action function is entered with argument sig.
		 returns the value returned to it by the action function.

	      o  If the action for sig is returns the value 1 and takes no other action.

	      o  If the action for sig is returns the value 0 and takes no other action.

	      o  If sig has an illegal value or no action was ever specified for sig, returns the value 0 and takes no other action.

SEE ALSO
       signal(5), thread_safety(5).

NOTES
       Some additional signals with numbers outside the range 1 through 15 are used by the Standard C Library to indicate error conditions.  Those
       signal numbers outside the range 1 through 15 are legal, although their use may interfere with the operation of the Standard C Library.

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
																       ssignal(3C)