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Date:      Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:27:53 +0100
From:      Daniel Tordable <arikapwr@gmail.com>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill",	but wait five years to phase the new name in
Message-ID:  <4B3236F9.60005@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B311165.4020800@missouri.edu>
References:  <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <4B311165.4020800@missouri.edu>

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Stephen Montgomery-Smith escribió:
> I would like to introduce a program into the base called
> "screw-the-whole-system."  It would do something like this:
>
> while true; do \
> echo "Please wait while your system is being destroyed..."
> sleep 10
> done
>
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Why not adding regexp functionality to our killall in order just to do

root # killall *
System is going down INMEDIATELY

and then forget about the "shutdown" command to save some KiB of space?



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