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[–] Rubanski@discuss.tchncs.de 18 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Does the "SIG" stands for "Signal"?

[–] mrunicornman@lemmy.world 13 points 18 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 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Gathorall@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] redhat421@lemmy.world 1 points 18 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 23 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)