PSIGNAL(3)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 signal.
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 ALSOsigvec(2), perror(3)4.2 Berkeley Distribution May 15, 1985 PSIGNAL(3)