Re: Why aren't we using strsignal(3) ?

On 2018-Dec-16, Tom Lane wrote:

> I propose to replace all these places with code like
> 
>         snprintf(str, sizeof(str),
>                  _("child process was terminated by signal %d: %s"),
>                  WTERMSIG(exitstatus), pg_strsignal(WTERMSIG(exitstatus)));
> 
> where pg_strsignal is a trivial wrapper around strsignal() if that
> exists, else it uses sys_siglist[] if that exists, else it just
> returns "unrecognized signal".

LGTM.

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