From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 06:55:47 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 CCB2A106568D for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D05B8FC1B for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au ([203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id nBM6thRH017059 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:43 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:25:32 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2451957.POklE68dG7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200912221725.40074.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: "Jason A. Spiro" , Craig Small 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 06:55:47 -0000 --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). Why not get Sun and HP to change killall to match Linux & *BSD=20 behaviour? 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--