1.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 2.\" All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the American National Standards Committee X3, on Information 6.\" Processing Systems. 7.\" 8.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 9.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 10.\" are met: 11.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 13.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 14.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 15.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 16.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 18.\" without specific prior written permission. 19.\" 20.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 21.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 22.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 23.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 24.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 25.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 26.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 27.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 28.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 29.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 30.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 31.\" 32.\" $OpenBSD: strsignal.3,v 1.9 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $ 33.\" 34.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $ 35.Dt STRSIGNAL 3 36.Os 37.Sh NAME 38.Nm strsignal 39.Nd get signal description string 40.Sh SYNOPSIS 41.In string.h 42.Ft char * 43.Fn strsignal "int sig" 44.Sh DESCRIPTION 45The 46.Fn strsignal 47function returns a pointer to the string describing the signal 48.Fa sig . 49.Pp 50The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be 51overwritten by subsequent calls to 52.Fn strsignal . 53.Sh SEE ALSO 54.Xr intro 2 , 55.Xr psignal 3 , 56.Xr setlocale 3 57.Sh STANDARDS 58The 59.Fn strsignal 60function conforms to 61.St -p1003.1-2008 . 62.Sh HISTORY 63The 64.Fn strsignal 65function first appeared in 66.At V.4 67and was reimplemented for 68.Nx 1.0 . 69.Sh CAVEATS 70On systems other than 71.Ox , 72the 73.Dv LC_MESSAGES 74.Xr locale 1 75category can cause different strings to be returned instead of the 76normal signal descriptions; see CAVEATS in 77.Xr setlocale 3 78for details. 79