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Subject: docs/34758: Irrelevant comment in killall(1) manpage
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>Number:         34758
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       Irrelevant comment in killall(1) manpage
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Feb 09 08:20:01 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jakob Borg
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE i386
>Organization:
None 
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD narayan.borg.pp.se 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #8: Wed Jan 30 16:46:53 CET 2002 root@narayan.borg.pp.se:/usr/src/sys/compile/NARAYAN i386
>Description:

The manpage for killall(1) says:

       Be warned that  typing  killall  name  may  not  have  the
       desired  effect on non-Linux systems, especially when done
       by a privileged user.

which, while perhaps correct, is not relevant for a FreeBSD system. Also,
the operating system kernel in use at a particular system should not influence
the behavior of killall.

>How-To-Repeat:

man 1 killall

>Fix:

Replace with warning about FreeBSD or non-FreeBSD systems as appropriate, or
rephrase to talk about "... systems with non-GNU killall ..." or the whatever
the correct source for the current killall is.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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