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

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