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Date:      Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com>
To:        "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 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:  <a78074950912212318t7e6e3ac9x334837c9dfb52dbd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com>

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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> wrote:
> Craig, and hackers, are you both willing to do this?

No.

killall is not part of standard, and, just because System V choose to
implement that way, does not warrant that FreeBSD has to.  Moreover,
user can always alias /sbin/killall to 'fkill' and 'kill -15 -1' to
'killall' if they really want the System V behavior.

Cheers,
-- 
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> http://www.delphij.net



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