NAME
strsignal —
get signal description
string
SYNOPSIS
#include
<string.h>
char *
strsignal(int
sig);
DESCRIPTION
The
strsignal()
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
strsignal().
SEE ALSO
STANDARDS
The strsignal() function conforms to
IEEE Std 1003.1-2008 (“POSIX.1”).
HISTORY
The strsignal() function first appeared in
AT&T System V Release 4 UNIX and
was reimplemented for NetBSD 1.0.
CAVEATS
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.