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Date:      Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:29:16 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Eldredge <nate@thatsmathematics.com>
To:        Craig Small <csmall@enc.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase   the new name in
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0912221027270.5432@zeno.ucsd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au>
References:  <c241693f0912212231g5c380246kf12f7bde974bb734@mail.gmail.com> <20091222081401.GB13725@enc.com.au>

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On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Craig Small wrote:

> I also agree with Daniel; why would anyone want to literally kill every
> process?

AFAIK, it's a helper program for shutdown(8) (or shutdown(1M) as they call 
it) and isn't really intended to be useful otherwise.

-- 

Nate Eldredge
nate@thatsmathematics.com



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