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Tcl_SignalId C API

Convert signal codes

Also documents Tcl_SignalMsg

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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

Copyright#

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