Hi Guillem, I also added some details for psiginfo(). thanks, Michael --- a/man3/psignal.3 +++ b/man3/psignal.3 @@ -70,6 +70,17 @@ except that it displays information about the signal described by which should point to a valid .I siginfo_t structure. +As well as the signal description, +.BR psiginfo () +displays information about the origin of the signal, +and other information relevant to the signal +(e.g., the relevant memory address for hardware-generated signals, +the child process ID for +.BR SIGCHLD , +and the user ID and process ID of the sender, for signals set using +.BR kill (2) +or +.BR sigqueue (2)). The array \fIsys_siglist\fP holds the signal description strings indexed by signal number. @@ -79,8 +90,22 @@ The and .BR psiginfo () functions return no value. +.SH VERSIONS +The +.BR psiginfo() +function was added to glibc in version 2.10. .SH "CONFORMING TO" POSIX.1-2008, 4.3BSD. +.SH BUGS +As at glibc 2.12, +.BR psiginfo () +has the following bugs: +.IP * 3 +In some circumstances, a trailing newline is not printed. +.\" FIXME http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12107 +.IP * +Additional details for are not displayed for realtime signals. +.\" FIXME http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=12108 .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR sigaction (2), .BR perror (3), -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html