NAME
psignal, sys_siglist - system signal messages
SYNOPSIS
void psignal(sig, s)
unsigned int sig;
const 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 ALSO
sigvec(2), perror(3)