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psignal

Section: C Library Functions (3)
Updated: 202-0-08
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NAME

psignal, psiginfo - print signal description

LIBRARY

Standard C library (libc,~-lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <signal.h>
void psignal(int sig, const char *s);
void psiginfo(const siginfo_t *pinfo, const char *s);

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

    Since glibc 2.19:
            _DEFAULT_SOURCE
    glibc 2.19 and earlier:
        _BSD_SOURCE || _SVID_SOURCE

psiginfo():

    _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200809L

DESCRIPTION

The psignal() function displays a message on stderr consisting of the string s, a colon, a space, a string describing the signal number sig, and a trailing newline. If the string s is NULL or empty, the colon and space are omitted. If sig is invalid, the message displayed will indicate an unknown signal. The psiginfo() function is like psignal(), except that it displays information about the signal described by pinfo, which should point to a valid siginfo_t structure. As well as the signal description, psiginfo() displays information about the origin of the signal, and other information relevant to the signal (e.g., the relevant memory address for hardwar-generated signals, the child process ID for SIGCHLD, and the user ID and process ID of the sender, for signals set using kill(2) or sigqueue(3)).

RETURN VALUE

The psignal() and psiginfo() functions return no value.

ATTRIBUTES

For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see attributes(7).

Interface	Attribute	Value
psignal(), psiginfo()	Thread safety	M-Safe locale

STANDARDS

POSIX.-2008.

HISTORY

glibc 2.10. POSIX.-2008, 4.3BSD.

BUGS

Up to glibc 2.12, psiginfo() had the following bugs:

[bu]: In some circumstances, a trailing newline is not printed.
[bu]: Additional details are not displayed for rea-time signals.