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<span class="headline">STRSIGNAL(3P)             POSIX Programmer's Manual            STRSIGNAL(3P)</span>
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       This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual.  The Linux
       implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
       corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
       the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
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       strsignal — get name of signal
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       #include &lt;string.h&gt;

       char *strsignal(int <i>signum</i>);
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       The <i>strsignal</i>() function shall map the signal number in <i>signum</i> to an
       implementation-defined string and shall return a pointer to it.  It
       shall use the same set of messages as the <i>psignal</i>() function.

       The application shall not modify the string returned. The returned
       pointer might be invalidated or the string content might be
       overwritten by a subsequent call to <i>strsignal</i>() or <i>setlocale</i>().

       The contents of the message strings returned by <i>strsignal</i>() should be
       determined by the setting of the <i>LC_MESSAGES</i> category in the current
       locale.

       The implementation shall behave as if no function defined in this
       standard calls <i>strsignal</i>().

       Since no return value is reserved to indicate an error, an
       application wishing to check for error situations should set <i><a href="errno.3.html">errno</a></i> to
       0, then call <i>strsignal</i>(), then check <i><a href="errno.3.html">errno</a></i>.

       The <i>strsignal</i>() function need not be thread-safe.
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       Upon successful completion, <i>strsignal</i>() shall return a pointer to a
       string. Otherwise, if <i>signum</i> is not a valid signal number, the return
       value is unspecified.
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       No errors are defined.

       <i>The following sections are informative.</i>
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       None.
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       None.
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       If <i>signum</i> is not a valid signal number, some implementations return
       NULL, while for others the <i>strsignal</i>() function returns a pointer to
       a string containing an unspecified message denoting an unknown
       signal. POSIX.1‐2008 leaves this return value unspecified.
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       None.
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       <a href="psiginfo.3p.html">psiginfo(3p)</a>, <a href="setlocale.3p.html">setlocale(3p)</a>

       The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, <a href="../man0/string.h.0p.html">string.h(0p)</a>
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       Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
       from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
       Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
       Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
       Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
       Group.  (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
       applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
       the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
       The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
       Standard can be obtained online at <a href="http://www.unix.org/online.html">http://www.unix.org/online.html</a> .

       Any typographical or formatting errors that appear in this page are
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       source files to man page format. To report such errors, see
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<span class="footline">IEEE/The Open Group                 2013                       STRSIGNAL(3P)</span>
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