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STRSIGNAL(3) Library Functions Manual STRSIGNAL(3)

strsignalget signal description string

#include <string.h>

char *
strsignal(int sig);

The () function returns a pointer to the language-dependent string describing a signal.

The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be overwritten by subsequent calls to ().

intro(2), psignal(3), setlocale(3)

The strsignal() function conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”).

The strsignal() function first appeared in AT&T System V Release 4 UNIX and was reimplemented for NetBSD 1.0.

June 5, 2013 OpenBSD-6.1