13.8 C. Effect

“issig” (3991) is called by “sleep” ( 2085), “trap” (2821) and “clock” (3826) to enquire whether there is an outstanding non-ignorable software interrupt for the active process just waiting to happen.

“psig” (4043) is called whenever “issig” returns a non-zero result (except in “sleep” where things are a little more complex) to implement the action triggered by the interrupt.

“core” (4094) is called by “psig” if a core dump is indicated for a terminating process.

“grow” (4136) is called by “psig” to enlarge the user mode stack area if necessary.

“exit” (3219) terminates the currently active process.