SunOS/BSD Compatibility Library Functions           psignal(3UCB)



NAME
     psignal, syssiglist - system signal messages

SYNOPSIS
     /usr/ucb/cc [ flag ... ] file ...

     void psignal(sig, s)
     unsigned sig;
     char *s;
     char *syssiglist[];


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 sig-
     nal and a NEWLINE. 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 .


     To simplify variant formatting of signal names,  the  vector
     of  message  strings  syssiglist  is  provided;  the signal
     number can be used as an index in this table to get the sig-
     nal  name  without  the  newline. The define NSIG defined in
      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
     cc(1B), perror(3C), signal(3C)

NOTES
     Use of these interfaces should be restricted to only  appli-
     cations  written  on BSD platforms.  Use of these interfaces
     with any of the system libraries or in multi-thread applica-
     tions is unsupported.


















SunOS 5.11          Last change: 30 Oct 2007                    1