SIGKILL Process Threads Meme

Every time you send SIGKILL to a process, you cause this to happen. Process SIGKILL Threads Be nice. Send SIGTERM instead.

A scene from The Lion King shows Scar killing Mufasa, while the labels identify the process as Scar and its threads as the shocked cub. The joke compares SIGKILL, which abruptly terminates a process and all its threads, with the gentler SIGTERM signal that allows graceful shutdown. It is commonly sent as a humorous reaction to force-killing processes. EN: A scene from The Lion King shows Scar killing Mufasa, while the labels identify the process as Scar and its threads as the shocked cub. The joke compares SIGKILL, which abruptly terminates a process and all its threads, with the gentler SIGTERM signal that allows graceful shutdown. It is commonly sent as a humorous reaction to force-killing processes.

• @profunctor_io / 1838 2019-04-01