The following issue has been SUBMITTED. ====================================================================== https://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1474 ====================================================================== Reported By: geoffclare Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: 1003.1(2016/18)/Issue7+TC2 Issue ID: 1474 Category: System Interfaces Type: Clarification Requested Severity: Editorial Priority: normal Status: New Name: Geoff Clare Organization: The Open Group User Reference: Section: strsignal() Page Number: 2069 Line Number: 66341 Interp Status: --- Final Accepted Text: ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2021-05-18 14:17 UTC Last Modified: 2021-05-18 14:17 UTC ====================================================================== Summary: strsignal() NAME section is misleading Description: The NAME section on the strsignal() page says "get name of signal".
This is misleading, as what is returned is not what most readers would think of as the "name" of a signal (which is what the new sig2str() function in Issue 8 draft 2 returns). It should be changed to be consistent with sterror(), which has "get error message string". The use of "message" would also match the text in the strsignal() description that says it uses "the same set of messages as the psignal() function." Desired Action: Change:<blockquote>get name of signal</blockquote>to:<blockquote>get signal message string</blockquote> ====================================================================== Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare New Issue 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Name => Geoff Clare 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Organization => The Open Group 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Section => strsignal() 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Page Number => 2069 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Line Number => 66341 2021-05-18 14:17 geoffclare Interp Status => --- ======================================================================
