From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 22 07:45:03 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 369591065679 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:45:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from delphij@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pw0-f44.google.com (mail-pw0-f44.google.com [209.85.160.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D4E28FC0C for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:45:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pwi15 with SMTP id 15so4003052pwi.3 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:45:02 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=WnquYCpH9zNcBO+9Tlu8b91HQChdBHDx52ZhY7PotWs=; b=hslMQ6RlKbmBQtU2NpD43Db6AOB9Pe34pjrYr9sVX8dblunvOIWq1Zr1BI4Nx/ue2V EG+sibyJhrpN6prH66Qs0mtQYUwbO9ahR0FDVHW3O05eGympTxBFYzlgxx7BCdsXpeJ+ +UMbbXaXrhmuukczeWy9rWL01/pAqW56N3ui8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mGyGxFpgX3rCDtKBxw3/+kgFY/kPrPWqrlsb0o6cuMkgyOZ/OFKz01RNrC46TXbxJ2 dEHh3LJwBrc2xEDyTBOYO+yblJq0xiM/JiTArhLvGjgWWSxDj8jJdNGgqsJ/dLg7XPIj io1BKpiPiaigSgKtzStKrVdHXS3L4e53b35g8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.115.84.8 with SMTP id m8mr5667159wal.144.1261466323719; Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 23:18:43 -0800 Message-ID: From: Xin LI To: "Jason A. Spiro" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, 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 07:45:03 -0000 On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:31 PM, Jason A. Spiro 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 http://www.delphij.net