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SIGNALNAME(3)              Library Functions Manual              SIGNALNAME(3)

NAME
     signalname, signalnumber, signalnext - convert between signal numbers and
     names

LIBRARY
     Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS
     #include <signal.h>

     const char *
     signalname(int sig);

     int
     signalnumber(const char *name);

     int
     signalnext(int sig);

DESCRIPTION
     The signalname() function takes a signal number sig, and returns the name
     of that signal.  The name returned is locale independent, and can be the
     string representation of one of the signal names from <signal.h> such as
     SIGHUP, SIGSTOP, SIGKILL, or some similar name, but does not contain the
     leading "SIG" prefix.

     The return value of signalname() is NULL if sig does not represent a
     valid signal number, or if the signal number given has no name.

     The signalnumber() function converts the signal name name to the number
     corresponding to that signal.  The name is handled in a case-insensitive
     manner.  Any leading "SIG" prefix in name is ignored.

     This implementation also accepts rtmax[-n] and rtmin[+n] (where the
     optional n is a decimal integer between 0 and SIGRTMAX-SIGRTMIN) to refer
     to the real time signals.

     The signalnumber() function returns the signal number, or zero (0) if the
     name given does not represent a valid signal.

     The signalnext() function takes a signal number, and returns the number
     of the next available bigger signal number.  When no higher signal
     numbers remain, it returns zero (0).  The parameter sig can be given as
     zero (0), to obtain the smallest implemented signal number.

     The signalnext() function returns minus one (-1) on error, that is, if
     the given signal sig is neither a valid signal number nor zero.  It
     returns zero when the input signal number, sig, is the biggest available
     signal number.  Otherwise it returns the signal number of an implemented
     signal that is larger than sig and such that there are no implemented
     signals with values between sig and the value returned.

     The signalnext() function can also be used to determine if a non-zero
     signal number is valid or not (0 is always invalid, but cannot be
     detected as such this way.)  Given the non-zero signal number to check as
     sig, if signalnext() returns anything other than minus one (-1) then sig
     represents a valid signal number.  If the return value is -1 then sig is
     invalid.

SEE ALSO
     kill(1), intro(2), psignal(3), strsignal(3)

HISTORY
     The signalname(), signalnext(), and signalnumber() functions first
     appeared in NetBSD 8.0.

NetBSD 10.99                    April 28, 2017                    NetBSD 10.99