78 lines
2.6 KiB
Groff
78 lines
2.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California.
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
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.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information
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.\" Processing Systems.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" without specific prior written permission.
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\" $OpenBSD: strsignal.3,v 1.9 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $
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.\"
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.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $
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.Dt STRSIGNAL 3
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm strsignal
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.Nd get signal description string
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In string.h
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.Ft char *
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.Fn strsignal "int sig"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Fn strsignal
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function returns a pointer to the string describing the signal
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.Fa sig .
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.Pp
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The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be
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overwritten by subsequent calls to
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.Fn strsignal .
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr intro 2 ,
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.Xr psignal 3 ,
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.Xr setlocale 3
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn strsignal
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function conforms to
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.St -p1003.1-2008 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn strsignal
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function first appeared in
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.At V.4
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and was reimplemented for
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.Nx 1.0 .
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.Sh CAVEATS
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On systems other than
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.Ox ,
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the
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.Dv LC_MESSAGES
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.Xr locale 1
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category can cause different strings to be returned instead of the
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normal signal descriptions; see CAVEATS in
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.Xr setlocale 3
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for details.
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