SIG_ERR
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C
Concurrency support (C11)
Program support utilities
Program termination
Unreachable control flow
(C23)
Communicating with the environment
(C11)
Memory alignment query
(C23)
Signals
SIG_ERR
Signal types
Non-local jumps
Types
Defined in header
<signal.h>
#define SIG_ERR /* implementation defined */
A value of type void (*)(int)
. When returned by signal , indicates that an error has occurred.
[edit] Example
Run this code
#include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <signal.h> void signal_handler(int sig) { printf ("Received signal: %d\n", sig); } int main(void) { /* Install a signal handler. */ if (signal (SIGTERM, signal_handler) == SIG_ERR) { printf ("Error while installing a signal handler.\n"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE ); } printf ("Sending signal: %d\n", SIGTERM ); if (raise (SIGTERM ) != 0) { printf ("Error while raising the SIGTERM signal.\n"); exit (EXIT_FAILURE ); } printf ("Exit main()\n"); return EXIT_SUCCESS ; }
Output:
Sending signal: 15 Received signal: 15 Exit main()
[edit] References
- C17 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2018):
- 7.14/3 Signal handling <signal.h> (p: 194)
- C11 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011):
- 7.14/3 Signal handling <signal.h> (p: 265)
- C99 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1999):
- 7.14/3 Signal handling <signal.h> (p: 246)
- C89/C90 standard (ISO/IEC 9899:1990):
- 4.7 SIGNAL HANDLING <signal.h>
[edit] See also
C++ documentation for SIG_ERR