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Tcl_SignalId(3)                            Tcl Library Procedures                            Tcl_SignalId(3)



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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.
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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



Tcl                                                  8.3                                     Tcl_SignalId(3)