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NAME

       psignal - print signal message

SYNOPSIS

       #include <signal.h>

       void psignal(int sig, const char *s);

       extern const char *const sys_siglist[];

   Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)):

       psignal(): _SVID_SOURCE || _BSD_SOURCE
       sys_siglist: _BSD_SOURCE

DESCRIPTION

       The  psignal()  function displays a message on stderr consisting of the
       string s, a colon, a space, and a string describing the  signal  number
       sig.  If sig is invalid, the message displayed will indicate an unknown
       signal.

       The array sys_siglist holds the signal description strings  indexed  by
       signal number.

RETURN VALUE

       The psignal() function returns no value.

CONFORMING TO

       POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD.

SEE ALSO

       perror(3), strsignal(3)

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