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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/libc/string/strsignal.3')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/libc/string/strsignal.3 | 18 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/libc/string/strsignal.3 b/lib/libc/string/strsignal.3 index 3261f699d88..b46be893b52 100644 --- a/lib/libc/string/strsignal.3 +++ b/lib/libc/string/strsignal.3 @@ -29,9 +29,9 @@ .\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.\" $OpenBSD: strsignal.3,v 1.8 2013/06/05 03:39:23 tedu Exp $ +.\" $OpenBSD: strsignal.3,v 1.9 2019/05/16 13:35:16 schwarze Exp $ .\" -.Dd $Mdocdate: June 5 2013 $ +.Dd $Mdocdate: May 16 2019 $ .Dt STRSIGNAL 3 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Fn strsignal -function returns a pointer to the language-dependent string describing -a signal. +function returns a pointer to the string describing the signal +.Fa sig . .Pp The array pointed to is not to be modified by the program, but may be overwritten by subsequent calls to @@ -66,3 +66,13 @@ function first appeared in .At V.4 and was reimplemented for .Nx 1.0 . +.Sh CAVEATS +On systems other than +.Ox , +the +.Dv LC_MESSAGES +.Xr locale 1 +category can cause different strings to be returned instead of the +normal signal descriptions; see CAVEATS in +.Xr setlocale 3 +for details. |