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.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
.AS int sig
.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
.QW SIGPIPE .
\fBTcl_SignalMsg\fR returns a human-readable string such as
.QW "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

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