From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 23:44:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A145B106568F for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:44:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31FFE8FC14 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:44:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 19670 invoked by uid 399); 22 Dec 2009 23:44:04 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO foreign.dougb.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 22 Dec 2009 23:44:04 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4B3159C7.9040309@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:44:07 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Spiro References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 OpenPGP: id=D5B2F0FB Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:44:05 -0000 Jason Spiro wrote: > Using aliases would help me, but wouldn't help people elsewhere in the world who > don't know what SysV killall does. Seriously, it's not our problem if solaris did something stupid. There is no hope whatsoever that you're going to get every Unix that has a rational 'killall' command to change, so can we please drop this thread? Thanks, Doug -- Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/