Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:34:16 +0000 (UTC) From: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Renaming "killall" and forever symlinking the old name to the new name Message-ID: <loom.20100204T083956-468@post.gmane.org> References: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912221409400.21806@qvfongpu.5c.ybpny> <loom.20091222T230421-82@post.gmane.org> <a78074950912221434i36be337co7ee1f9ad6bb5c921@mail.gmail.com> <c241693f0912221454o1a6bd54v7e1d7afb2694a9e2@mail.gmail.com> <4B315A5A.6040101@delphij.net> <loom.20091223T011229-464@post.gmane.org> <4B31671C.8090005@delphij.net> <loom.20091223T222349-284@post.gmane.org>
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Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4 <at> gmail.com> writes: [snip] > > You could rename killall to something else, and update the manpage to show the > new name, then symlink or hard link "killall" to the new name forever. This > would encourage people to use the new name, but it would never force them to. > > Xin, what do you think? Since Xin and I CC'ed each other so often in this thread, Gmail automatically added us to each others' Gtalk instant-messenger contact lists. Since it'd been more than a month and Xin still hadn't replied to this message, I instant messaged him the idea and asked him what he thought. He replied that, in his opinion, this new idea is pointless: nobody would notice the renaming, and it would just cause confusion. I asked, what if the tool would show a hint onscreen if you called it using the old name? He said no. He said people can just use pkill. I hope Eitan Adler's patch[1], which adds a "verbose" option to pkill, will get accepted, and that a similar patch will get accepted into the Linux pkill, maintained by Albert Calahan. ^ [1]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/38636
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