NAME¶

Tcl_SignalId, Tcl_SignalMsg - Convert signal codes

SYNOPSIS¶

#include <tcl.h>

const char *
Tcl_SignalId(sig)

const char *
Tcl_SignalMsg(sig)

ARGUMENTS¶

int sig (in)

A POSIX signal number such as SIGPIPE.

DESCRIPTION¶

Tcl_SignalId and Tcl_SignalMsg return a string representation of the provided signal number (sig). Tcl_SignalId returns a machine-readable textual identifier such as “SIGPIPE”. Tcl_SignalMsg returns a human-readable string such as “bus error”. The strings returned by these functions are statically allocated and the caller must not free or modify them.

KEYWORDS¶

signals, signal numbers