Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:32 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>, Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au> Subject: Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in Message-ID: <200912221725.40074.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> References: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart2451957.POklE68dG7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Jason A. Spiro wrote: > Naming it the same as System V killall, which just kills all > processes, can wreak havoc. =A0When someone types a standard Linux > killall command line as root on a Solaris or HP-UX server, System V > killall runs and kills all processes. > > It might be good if you'd rename it to something else. =A0Not "akill" > (All Kill): =A0it looks like IRIX probably ships with something called > akill already, so this would be confusing. =A0Maybe "fkill" (Friendly > Kill). <snark> Why not get Sun and HP to change killall to match Linux & *BSD=20 behaviour? </snark> Although seriously, why not? killall just killing everything is a fairly=20 dangerous command with almost no use in the real world. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart2451957.POklE68dG7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBLMG1r5ZPcIHs/zowRAsvLAJ987Pgrh/hXE4FGZ4qeqpTKAF/KGgCfeXM5 GfrzpntbXrvcgwbURU9vu2w= =u0C7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2451957.POklE68dG7--
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