Manual Pages  — PSIGNAL

• The target process is sleeping uninterruptibly. The signal will be noticed when the process returns from the system call or trap.
• The target process is currently ignoring the signal.
• If a stop signal is sent to a sleeping process that takes the default action (see sigaction(2)), the process is stopped without awakening it.
• SIGCONT restarts a stopped process (or puts them back to sleep) regardless of the signal action (e.g., blocked or ignored).

If the target process is being traced kern_psignal() behaves as if the target process were taking the default action for signum. This allows the tracing process to be notified of the signal.

The pgsignal() function posts signal number signum to each member of the process group described by pgrp. If checkctty is non-zero, the signal will be posted only to processes that have a controlling terminal. pgsignal() is implemented by walking along the process list headed by the field pg_members of the process group structure pointed at by pgrp and calling kern_psignal() as appropriate. If pgrp is NULL no action is taken.

The gsignal() function posts signal number signum to each member of the process group identified by the group id pgid. gsignal() first finds the group structure associated with pgid, then invokes pgsignal() with the argument checkctty set to zero. If pgid is zero no action is taken.

The tdsignal() function posts signal number signum to the thread represented by the thread structure td.