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[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 11 hours ago (4 children)

Does the "SIG" stands for "Signal"?

[–] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 hours ago

Special Interest Group. An internal committee convenes to decide the fate of the process.

(I don't know the answer, but I'm pretty sure it stands for signal.)

[–] SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I like to secretly imagine it stands for SIG SAUER. Bang = process ded

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Eh, it works more than 80% of the time.

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago

The problem with Sig is they work too oftem, particularly when you don't want them to

[–] redhat421@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago

80% of the time it works every time!

You're likely bumping into processes which are blocked by IO or are zombies.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 1 points 10 hours ago

I guess, but would have to look that up too (there are quite a lot of signals starting with SIG, so it would make sense that it is this way)