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diff --git a/man3/psignal.3 b/man3/psignal.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..baeb4e9e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/psignal.3 @@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ +.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk) +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this +.\" manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are +.\" preserved on all copies. +.\" +.\" Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this +.\" manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the +.\" entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a +.\" permission notice identical to this one. +.\" +.\" Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this +.\" manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no +.\" responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from +.\" the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not +.\" have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual, +.\" which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working +.\" professionally. +.\" +.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by +.\" the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work. +.\" +.\" References consulted: +.\" Linux libc source code +.\" Lewine's _POSIX Programmer's Guide_ (O'Reilly & Associates, 1991) +.\" 386BSD man pages +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 18:45:17 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.TH PSIGNAL 3 1993-04-13 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +psignal \- print signal message +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.B #include <signal.h> +.sp +.BI "void psignal(int " sig ", const char *" s ); +.sp +.BI "extern const char *const " sys_siglist []; +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +The \fBpsignal()\fP function displays a message on \fIstderr\fP +consisting of the string \fIs\fP, a colon, a space, and a string +describing the signal number \fIsig\fP. If \fIsig\fP is invalid, +the message displayed will indicate an unknown signal. +.PP +The array \fIsys_siglist\fP holds the signal description strings +indexed by signal number. +.SH "RETURN VALUE" +The \fBpsignal()\fP function returns no value. +.SH "CONFORMING TO" +BSD 4.3 +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.BR perror (3), +.BR strsignal (3) |