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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)psignal.3   6.1 (Berkeley) 5/15/85
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH PSIGNAL 3 "May 15, 1985"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: psignal, sys_siglist \- system signal messages
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .nf
        !            13: .B psignal(sig, s)
        !            14: .B unsigned sig;
        !            15: .B char *s;
        !            16: .PP
        !            17: .B char *sys_siglist[];
        !            18: .fi
        !            19: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            20: .I Psignal
        !            21: produces a short message
        !            22: on the standard error file
        !            23: describing the indicated signal.
        !            24: First the argument string
        !            25: .I s
        !            26: is printed, then a colon, then the name of the signal
        !            27: and a new-line.
        !            28: Most usefully, the argument string is the name
        !            29: of the program which incurred the signal.
        !            30: The signal number should be from among those found
        !            31: in
        !            32: .IR <signal.h> .
        !            33: .PP
        !            34: To simplify variant formatting
        !            35: of signal names, the vector of message strings
        !            36: .I sys_siglist
        !            37: is provided;
        !            38: the signal number
        !            39: can be used as an index in this table to get the
        !            40: signal name without the newline.
        !            41: The define NSIG defined in
        !            42: .RI < signal.h >
        !            43: is the number of messages provided for in the table;
        !            44: it should be checked because new
        !            45: signals may be added to the system before
        !            46: they are added to the table.
        !            47: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            48: sigvec(2),
        !            49: perror(3)

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