'\" '\" Copyright (c) 2001 ActiveState Tool Corp. '\" '\" See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and redistribution '\" of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES. '\" '\" RCS: @(#) Signal.3,v 1.3 2003/01/21 19:39:59 hunt Exp .so man.macros .TH Tcl_SignalId 3 8.3 Tcl "Tcl Library Procedures" .BS .SH NAME Tcl_SignalId, Tcl_SignalMsg \- Convert signal codes .SH SYNOPSIS .nf \fB#include <tcl.h>\fR .sp CONST char * \fBTcl_SignalId\fR(\fIsig\fR) .sp CONST char * \fBTcl_SignalMsg\fR(\fIsig\fR) .sp .SH ARGUMENTS .AP int sig in A POSIX signal number such as \fBSIGPIPE\fR. .BE .SH DESCRIPTION .PP \fBTcl_SignalId\fR and \fBTcl_SignalMsg\fR return a string representation of the provided signal number (\fIsig\fR). \fBTcl_SignalId\fR returns a machine-readable textual identifier such as "SIGPIPE". \fBTcl_SignalMsg\fR 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. .SH KEYWORDS signals, signal numbers