Function

GLibstrsignal

since: 2.0

Declaration

const gchar*
g_strsignal (
  gint signum
)

Description

Returns a string describing the given signal, e.g. “Segmentation fault”. You should use this function in preference to strsignal(), because it returns a string in UTF-8 encoding, and since not all platforms support the strsignal() function.

Available since: 2.0

Parameters

signum

Type: gint

The signal number. See the signal documentation.

Return value

Type: const gchar*

A UTF-8 string describing the signal. If the signal is unknown, it returns “unknown signal ()”.

The data is owned by the called function.

The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.