.\" Copyright 1993 David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
.\" May be distributed under the GNU General Public License
.\" 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  "April 13, 1993" "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), " strsignal (3)