Mon May 13 12:03:03 1996 Roland McGrath <roland@delasyd.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
[glibc/history.git] / string / strsignal.c
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1991, 1994, 1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as
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19 #include <ansidecl.h>
20 #include <signal.h>
21 #include <stdio.h>
22 #include <string.h>
25 #ifndef HAVE_GNU_LD
26 #define _sys_siglist sys_siglist
27 #endif
29 /* Defined in siglist.c. */
30 extern CONST char *CONST _sys_siglist[];
33 /* Return a string describing the meaning of the signal number SIGNUM. */
34 char *
35 DEFUN(strsignal, (signum), int signum)
37 if (signum < 0 || signum > NSIG)
39 static char buf[512];
40 int len = __snprintf (buf, sizeof buf, _("Unknown signal %d"), signum);
41 if (len < 0)
42 return NULL;
43 buf[len - 1] = '\0';
44 return buf;
47 return (char *) _(_sys_siglist[signum]);