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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 string describing the signal sig.

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.

On systems other than OpenBSD, the LC_MESSAGES locale(1) category can cause different strings to be returned instead of the normal signal descriptions; see CAVEATS in setlocale(3) for details.

May 16, 2019 OpenBSD-6.8